[Gambas-devel] PING > Benoit --> Conv function

[Benoît Minisini]

> Benoit,
> 
> ConvertedString = Conv (String AS String, SourceCharset AS String,
> DestinationCharset AS String) AS String
> 
> Before I update the English page for the Conv function
> (http://gambasdoc.org/help/lang/conv), can you confirm that Gambas
> passes both the SourceCharset and DestinationCharset to the iconv()
> GNU library function, unfiltered and unaltered. That is, can you
> confirm that the Gambas Conv function can convert any encoding pair
> supported by iconv()?
> 
> I want to update the Conv page to reflect what I just discovered,
> which you probably knew anyway but it isn't documented... I have just
> made Gambas convert encoded Turkish (iso-8859-9), Korean (EUC-KR),
> Simplified Chinese (GB2312), Arabic (windows-1256), Cyrillic (koi8-r)
> and Japanese (iso-2022-jp) into human-readable UTF-8.
> 
> For example:
> From: ^[$B=iJbE*$J;v$G$9$,!V%a!<%k!W$K$D$$^[(B
> To: 初歩的な事ですが「メール」につい
> 
> From: ���ʻ��⣬����ͼƬ��Ȥ����������
> To: 新鲜话题，火爆图片，趣闻奇理，我抢鲜！！
> 
> Suggested addition to web page:
> Gambas can convert, amongst many other encodings, Turkish
> (ISO-8859-9), Korean (EUC-KR), Simplified Chinese (GB2312), Arabic
> (WINDOWS-1256), Cyrillic (KOI8-R) and Japanese (ISO-2022-JP) into
> human-readable UTF-8 text. For a full list of supported international
> text conversions visit http://www.gnu.org/software/libiconv
> 
> OR
> 
> Gambas can convert, amongst many other encodings, Turkish
> (iso-8859-9), Korean (EUC-KR), Simplified Chinese (GB2312), Arabic
> (windows-1256), Cyrillic (koi8-r) and Japanese (iso-2022-jp) into
> human-readable UTF-8. For a full list of supported international text
> conversions type iconv -l in a command line.
> 
> Are you ok with that?
> 

Yes: the encoding are directly passed to the iconv function, so your guesses 
are right.

Regards,


-- 
Benoît Minisini