feat: adding extra string methods to use different encoding

Assets/Mirage/Runtime/Serialization/StringExtensions.cs

@@ -11,11 +11,20 @@ public static class StringExtensions
         /// <para>Can be changed by user if they need to</para>
         /// </summary>
         public static int MaxStringLength = 1300;
-        private static readonly UTF8Encoding encoding = new UTF8Encoding(false, true);
+
+        private static readonly UTF8Encoding defaultEncoding = new UTF8Encoding(false, true);
         private static readonly byte[] stringBuffer = new byte[MaxStringLength];
 
         /// <param name="value">string or null</param>
-        public static void WriteString(this NetworkWriter writer, string value)
+        public static void WriteString(this NetworkWriter writer, string value) => WriteString(writer, value, defaultEncoding);
+
+        /// <returns>string or null</returns>
+        /// <exception cref="ArgumentException">Throws if invalid utf8 string is received</exception>
+        public static string ReadString(this NetworkReader reader) => ReadString(reader, defaultEncoding);
+
+        /// <param name="encoding">Use this for encoding other than the default (UTF8). Make sure to use same encoding for ReadString</param>
+        /// <param name="value">string or null</param>
+        public static void WriteString(this NetworkWriter writer, string value, Encoding encoding)
         {
             // write 0 for null support, increment real size by 1
             // (note: original HLAPI would write "" for null strings, but if a
@@ -42,10 +51,10 @@ public static void WriteString(this NetworkWriter writer, string value)
             writer.WriteBytes(stringBuffer, 0, size);
         }
 
-
+        /// <param name="encoding">Use this for encoding other than the default (UTF8). Make sure to use same encoding for WriterString</param>
         /// <returns>string or null</returns>
         /// <exception cref="ArgumentException">Throws if invalid utf8 string is received</exception>
-        public static string ReadString(this NetworkReader reader)
+        public static string ReadString(this NetworkReader reader, Encoding encoding)
         {
             // read number of bytes
             var size = reader.ReadUInt16();