TextConverter
From Xojo Documentation
Class (inherits from Object)
Used to convert text from one encoding system to another.
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Notes
The following tables give the values of the Base and Variant parameters that are used in several of the functions in the Text Encoding theme.
Codes for Base
| Base | Value |
|---|---|
| MacRoman | 0 |
| MacJapanese | 1 |
| MacChineseTrad | 2 |
| MacKorean | 3 |
| MacArabic | 4 |
| MacHebrew | 5 |
| MacGreek | 6 |
| MacCyrillic | 7 |
| MacDevanagari | 9 |
| MacGurmukhi | 10 |
| MacGujarati | 11 |
| MacOriya | 12 |
| MacBengali | 13 |
| MacTamil | 14 |
| MacTelugu | 15 |
| MacKannada | 16 |
| MacMalayalam | 17 |
| MacSinhalese | 18 |
| MacBurmese | 19 |
| MacKhmer | 20 |
| MacThai | 21 |
| MacLaotian | 22 |
| MacGeorgian | 23 |
| MacArmenian | 24 |
| MacChineseSimp | 25 |
| MacTibetan | 26 |
| MacMongolian | 27 |
| MacEthiopic | 28 |
| MacCentralEurRoman | 29 |
| MacVietnamese | 30 |
| MacExtArabic | 31 |
| MacSymbol | 33 |
| MacDingbats | 34 |
| MacTurkish | 35 |
| MacCroatian | 36 |
| MacIcelandic | 37 |
| MacRomanian | 38 |
| MacCeltic | 39 |
| MacGaelic | 40 |
| MacUnicode | &h7E |
| MacFarsi | &h8C |
| MacUkrainian | &h98 |
| MacInuit | &hEC |
| MacVT100 | &hFC |
| MacHFS | &hFF |
| UnicodeDefault | &h0100 |
| UnicodeV1_1 | &h0101 |
| ISO10646_1933 | &h0101 |
| UnicodeV2_0 | &h0103 |
| Unicodev2_1 | &h0103 |
| ISOLatin1 | &h0201 |
| ISOLatin2 | &h0202 |
| ISOLatin3 | &h0203 |
| ISOLatin4 | &h0204 |
| ISOLatinCyrillic | &h0205 |
| ISOLatinArabic | &h0206 |
| ISOLatinGreek | &h0207 |
| ISOLatinHebrew | &h0208 |
| ISOLatin5 | &h0209 |
| DOSLatinUS | &h0400 |
| DOSGreek | &h0405 |
| DOSBalticRim | &h0405 |
| DOSLatin1 | &h0410 |
| DOSGreek1 | &h0411 |
| DOSLatin2 | &h0412 |
| DOSCyrillic | &h0413 |
| DOSTurkish | &h0414 |
| DOCPortuguese | &h0415 |
| DOSIslandic | &h0416 |
| DOSHebrew | &h0417 |
| DOSCanadianFrench | &h0418 |
| DOSArabic | &h0419 |
| DOSNordic | &h041A |
| DOSRussian | &h041B |
| DOSGreek2 | &h041C |
| DOSThai | &h041D |
| DOSJapanese | &h0420 |
| DOSChineseSimplif | &h0421 |
| DOSKorean | &h0422 |
| DOSChineseTrad | &h0423 |
| WindowsLatin1 | &h0500 |
| WindowsANSI | &h0500 |
| WindowsLatin2 | &h0501 |
| WindowsCryillic | &h0502 |
| WindowsGreek | &h0503 |
| WindowsLatin5 | &h0504 |
| WindowsHebrew | &h0505 |
| WindowsArabic | &h0506 |
| WindowsBalticRim | &h0507 |
| WindowsVietnamese | &h0508 |
| WindowsKoreanJohab | &h0510 |
| US_ASCII | &h0600 |
| JIS_X0201_76 | &h0620 |
| JIS_X0208_83 | &h0621 |
| JIS_X0208_90 | &h0622 |
| JIS_X0212_90 | &h0623 |
| JIS_C6226_78 | &h0624 |
| GB_2312_80 | &h0630 |
| GBK_95 | &h0631 |
| KSC_5601_87 | &h0640 |
| KSC_5601_92_Johab | &h0641 |
| CNS_11643_92_P1 | &h0651 |
| CNS_11643_92_P2 | &h0652 |
| CNS_11643_92_P3 | &h0653 |
| ISO_2022_JP | &h0820 |
| ISO_2022_JP_2 | &h0821 |
| ISO_2022_CN | &h0830 |
| ISO_2022_CN_EXT | &h0831 |
| ISO_2022_KR | &h0840 |
| EUC_JP | &h0920 |
| EUC_CN | &h0930 |
| EUC_TW | &h0931 |
| EUC_KR | &h0940 |
| ShiftJIS | &h0A01 |
| KOI8_R | &h0A02 |
| Big5 | &h0A03 |
| MacRomanLatin1 | &h0A04 |
| HZ_GB_2312 | &h0A05 |
| NextStepLatin | &h0B01 |
| EBCDIC_US | &h0C01 |
| EBCDIC_CP037 | &h0C02 |
| MultiRun | &h0FFF |
| MacTradChinese | 2 |
| MacRSSymbol | 8 |
| MacSimpChinese | 25 |
| MacGeez | 28 |
| MacEastEurRoman | 29 |
| MacUninterp | 32 |
Codes for Variant
| Variant | Value |
|---|---|
| Text Encoding Default Variant | 0 |
| Mac Roman Default Variant | 0 |
| Mac Roman Currency Sign Variant | 1 |
| Mac Roman Euro Sign Variant | 2 |
| Mac Icelandic Std Default Variant | 0 |
| Mac Icelandic TT Default Variant | 1 |
| Mac Icelandic Std Euro Sign Variant | 4 |
| Mac Icelandic TT Euro Sign Variant | 5 |
| Mac Croatian Default Variant | 0 |
| Mac Croatian Currency Sign Variant | 1 |
| Mac Croatian Euro Sign Variant | 2 |
| Mac Romanian Default Variant | 0 |
| Mac Romanian Currency Sign Variant | 1 |
| Mac Romanian Euro Sign Variant | 2 |
| Mac Japanese Standard Variant | 0 |
| Mac Japanese StdNoVerticals Variant | 1 |
| Mac Japanese Basic Variant | 2 |
| Mac JapanesePostScript Scrn Variant | 3 |
| Mac Japanese PostScript Print Variant | 4 |
| Mac Japanese VartAtKuPlusTen Variant | 5 |
| Mac Arabic Standard Variant | 0 |
| Mac Arabic TrueType Variant | 1 |
| Mac Arabic Thuluth Variant | 2 |
| Mac Arabic AlBayan Variant | 3 |
| Mac Farsi Standard Variant | 0 |
| Mac Farsi TrueType Variant | 1 |
| Mac Hebrew Standard Variant | 0 |
| Mac Hebrew FigureSpace Variant | 1 |
| Mac VT100 Default Variant | 0 |
| Mac VT100 CurrencySign Variant | 1 |
| Mac VT100 EuroSign Variant | 2 |
| Unicode No Subset | 0 |
| Unicode Canonical Decomp Variant | 2 |
| Big5_Basic Variant | 0 |
| Big5_Standard Variant | 1 |
| Big5_ETen Variant | 2 |
| Unicode No Compatibility Variant | 1 |
| Unicode No Composed Variant | 3 |
| Unicode No Corporate Variant | 4 |
| Mac Roman Standard Variant | 0 |
| Mac Icelandic Standard Variant | 0 |
| Mac Icelandic TrueType Variant | 1 |
| Japanese Standard Variant | 0 |
| Japanese Std No Verticals Variant | 1 |
| Japanese Basic Variant | 2 |
| Japanese PostScript Scrn Variant | 3 |
| Japanese PostScript Print Variant | 4 |
| Japanese VertAtKuPlusTen Variant | 5 |
| Hebrew Standard Variant | 0 |
| Hebrew Figure Space Variant | 1 |
| Unicode Max Decomposed Variant | 2 |
| Japanese NoOneByteKanaOption | 0020 |
| Japanese Use ASCII Backslash Option | &h40 |
Examples
The following example converts the text in a TextField:
Var c As TextConverter
c = GetTextConverter(GetTextEncoding(&h500), GetTextEncoding(0))
TextField2.Value = c.Convert(TextField1.Value)
c = GetTextConverter(GetTextEncoding(&h500), GetTextEncoding(0))
TextField2.Value = c.Convert(TextField1.Value)
See Also
ConvertEncoding, DefineEncoding, Encoding, GetTextConverter functions; TextEncoding class; Encodings module.