Remember a String object in .NET is a collection of Char objects, where a Char object in turn s announced as a unicode character, encoded by a 16bit unsigned integer. Thus, more precisely speaking, a single Char object is able to encode any codepoint within the basic multilingual lane (BMP), i.e. between U+0000 and U+FFFF. So, where goes the rest of the story? Unicode, as an universal character set, is designed to support much more than 65536 characters of ourse.  → read more …