Coping with the encoded internet world using System.NetEncodings

The internet is the land of encodings! URIs are encoded, HTML provides specific encodings, emails work because of MIME Encoding, and the REST service works because, in some way, the client and server can talk to each other using some sort of encoding! There are many kinds of encoding for different purposes, but in this recipe we will talk about encodings that are handled by the classes contained in the System.NetEncodings.pas unit.

Getting ready

The System.NetEncodings unit contains the following classes:

• TNetEncoding: This class is a factory for the actual encoding classes; moreover, it serves as a base class for all other classes
• THTMLEncoding: This class...