Contains routines and tables to convert text between various encodings.
Guess character encoding of a string.
The returned encoding can be used with other functions of this unit. GuessEncoding uses some heuristics to find out a good encoding. For example it checks for magic numbers like utf BOM. Next it checks if it could be UTF-8. Finally it returns the system encoding. This function can be used to find the encoding of text files.
Converts the character encoding of a string
ConvertEncoding uses has tables to convert between almost any desired encoding. The parameters for this function are: s - The string to be convert FromEncoding - The encoding of the string s ToEncoding - The encoding of the result The encodings are specified as string values, and the following values are currently supported: 'utf8' - UTF-8, the standard Unicode encoding of the LCL 'ansi' - Ansi represents whatever is the current system locale in a single-byte or multi-byte encoding, but never in a word encoding like UTF-16 'utf8bom' - Indicates that the text is in UTF-8 and starts with a UTF-8 byte order mark 'ucs2le' - UCS 2 encoded in little endian byte order 'ucs2be' - UCS 2 encoded in bif endian byte order 'iso88591' - ISO 8859-1 Latin 1 'iso88592' - ISO 8859-2 Latin 2 'cp1250' - CP1250 'cp1251' - CP1251 'cp1252' - 'cp1253' - 'cp1254' - 'cp1255' - 'cp1256' - 'cp1257' - 'cp1258' - 'cp437' - 'cp850' - 'cp852' - 'cp866' - 'cp874' - 'cp936' - 'cp950' - 'cp949' - 'cp932' - 'koi8' - KOI8
Returns the common text encoding of the current operating system.
At the moment it gives: Under Windows it returns the windows codepage. Under Darwin (Mac OS X) it returns UTF-8. Under all other Unix (e.g. Linux, BSD, Solaris) it uses the environment variables LC_LANG, LC_MESSAGE, and LANG. This is nowadays typically UTF-8.
Trims, shorten and lower case the given encoding
Fills the list with all basic encodings
It does not add all encodings that are supported by the operating system. For example iconv under Linux supports hundreds of encodings.