TextConverter
From Xojo Documentation
Class (inherits from Object)
Used to convert text from one encoding system to another.
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Text Encoding Base and Variant Codes
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.
| 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 |
| 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.