recode()

The function converts a string and returns the string in the desired encoding.

Synopsis

string recode(string s, string sourceEncoding, [string targetEncoding]);

Parameters


Parameter	Meaning
s	A string that is converted.
sourceEncoding	The source encoding.
targetEncoding	The target encoding. The target encoding. The default target encoding is the project encoding.

Return value

The converted string.

Description

The function converts a string and returns the string in the desired encoding.

As of the version 3.18 ISO projects cannot be created anymore. Create UTF-8 projects instead.

Possible Encodings

ISO-8859-1
latin1
CP819
IBM819
iso-ir-100
csISOLatin1
UTF-8
windows-1252
ibm-5348_P100-1997
ibm-5348
cp1252
UTF-8
ibm-1208
ibm-1209
ibm-5304
ibm-5305
ibm-13496
ibm-13497
ibm-17592
ibm-17593
windows-65001
cp1208
x-UTF_8J
unicode-1-1-utf-8
unicode-2-0-utf-8
UTF-16
ISO-10646-UCS-2
ibm-1204
ibm-1205
unicode
csUnicode
ucs-2
UTF-16BE
x-utf-16be
UnicodeBigUnmarked
ibm-1200
ibm-1201
ibm-13488
ibm-13489
ibm-17584
ibm-17585
ibm-21680
ibm-21681
ibm-25776
ibm-25777
ibm-29872
ibm-29873
ibm-61955
ibm-61956
windows-1201
cp1200
cp1201
UTF16_BigEndian
UTF-16LE
x-utf-16le
UnicodeLittleUnmarked
ibm-1202
ibm-1203
ibm-13490
ibm-13491
ibm-17586
ibm-17587
ibm-21682
ibm-21683
ibm-25778
ibm-25779
ibm-29874
ibm-29875
UTF16_LittleEndian
windows-1200
UTF-32
ISO-10646-UCS-4
ibm-1236
ibm-1237
csUCS4
ucs-4
UTF-32BE
UTF32_BigEndian
ibm-1232
ibm-1233
ibm-9424
UTF-32LE
UTF32_LittleEndian
ibm-1234
ibm-1235
UTF-7
windows-65000
unicode-1-1-utf-7
unicode-2-0-utf-7
SCSU
ibm-1212
ibm-1213
BOCU-1
csBOCU-1
ibm-1214
ibm-1215
CESU-8
ibm-9400
ISO-8859-1
ibm-819
IBM819
cp819
latin1
8859_1
csISOLatin1
iso-ir-100
ISO_8859-1:1987
l1
819
US-ASCII
ASCII
ANSI_X3.4-1968
ANSI_X3.4-1986
ISO_646.irv:1991
iso_646.irv:1983
ISO646-US
us
csASCII
iso-ir-6
cp367
ascii7
646
windows-20127
ibm-367
IBM367
gb18030
ibm-1392
windows-54936
GB18030
ibm-912_P100-1995
ibm-912
ISO-8859-2
ISO_8859-2:1987
latin2
csISOLatin2
iso-ir-101
l2
8859_2
cp912
912
windows-28592
ibm-913_P100-2000
ibm-913
ISO-8859-3
ISO_8859-3:1988
latin3
csISOLatin3
iso-ir-109
l3
8859_3
cp913
913
windows-28593
ibm-914_P100-1995
ibm-914
ISO-8859-4
latin4
csISOLatin4
iso-ir-110
ISO_8859-4:1988
l4
8859_4
cp914
914
windows-28594
ibm-915_P100-1995
ibm-915
ISO-8859-5
cyrillic
csISOLatinCyrillic
iso-ir-144
ISO_8859-5:1988
8859_5
cp915
915
windows-28595
ibm-1089_P100-1995
ibm-1089
ISO-8859-6
arabic
csISOLatinArabic
iso-ir-127
ISO_8859-6:1987
ECMA-114
ASMO-708
8859_6
cp1089
1089
windows-28596
ISO-8859-6-I
ISO-8859-6-E
x-ISO-8859-6S
ibm-9005_X110-2007
ibm-9005
ISO-8859-7
8859_7
greek
greek8
ELOT_928
ECMA-118
csISOLatinGreek
iso-ir-126
ISO_8859-7:1987
windows-28597
sun_eu_greek
ibm-5012_P100-1999
ibm-5012
ISO-8859-8
hebrew
csISOLatinHebrew
iso-ir-138
ISO_8859-8:1988
ISO-8859-8-I
ISO-8859-8-E
8859_8
windows-28598
hebrew8
ibm-920_P100-1995
ibm-920
ISO-8859-9
latin5
csISOLatin5
iso-ir-148
ISO_8859-9:1989
l5
8859_9
cp920
920
windows-28599
ECMA-128
turkish8
turkish
iso-8859_10-1998
ISO-8859-10
iso-ir-157
l6
ISO_8859-10:1992
csISOLatin6
latin6
ibm-921_P100-1995
ibm-921
ISO-8859-13
8859_13
windows-28603
cp921
921
x-IBM921
iso-8859_14-1998
ISO-8859-14
iso-ir-199
ISO_8859-14:1998
latin8
iso-celtic
l8
ibm-923_P100-1998
ibm-923
ISO-8859-15
Latin-9
l9
8859_15
latin0
csisolatin0
csisolatin9
iso8859_15_fdis
cp923
923
windows-28605
ibm-943_P15A-2003
ibm-943
Shift_JIS
MS_Kanji
csShiftJIS
windows-31j
csWindows31J
x-sjis
x-ms-cp932
cp932
windows-932
cp943c
IBM-943C
ms932
pck
sjis
ibm-943_VSUB_VPUA
x-MS932_0213
x-JISAutoDetect
euc-jp-2007
EUC-JP
Extended_UNIX_Code_Packed_Format_for_Japanese
csEUCPkdFmtJapanese
X-EUC-JP
eucjis
ujis
windows-950-2000
Big5
csBig5
windows-950
x-windows-950
x-big5
ms950
ibm-1375_P100-2007
ibm-1375
Big5-HKSCS
big5hk
HKSCS-BIG5
windows-936-2000
GBK
CP936
MS936
windows-936
ibm-1383_P110-1999
ibm-1383
GB2312
csGB2312
cp1383
1383
EUC-CN
ibm-eucCN
hp15CN
ibm-1383_VPUA
ibm-5478_P100-1995
ibm-5478
GB_2312-80
chinese
iso-ir-58
csISO58GB231280
gb2312-1980
GB2312.1980-0
ibm-970_P110_P110-2006_U2
ibm-970
EUC-KR
KS_C_5601-1987
windows-51949
csEUCKR
ibm-eucKR
KSC_5601
5601
cp970
970
ibm-970_VPUA
x-IBM970
ibm-1363_P11B-1998
ibm-1363
KS_C_5601-1987
KS_C_5601-1989
KSC_5601
csKSC56011987
korean
iso-ir-149
cp1363
5601
ksc
windows-949
ibm-1363_VSUB_VPUA
x-IBM1363C
windows-949-2000
windows-949
KS_C_5601-1987
KS_C_5601-1989
KSC_5601
csKSC56011987
korean
iso-ir-149
ms949
x-KSC5601
windows-874-2000
TIS-620
windows-874
MS874
x-windows-874
ibm-437_P100-1995
ibm-437
IBM437
cp437
437
csPC8CodePage437
windows-437
ibm-775_P100-1996
ibm-775
IBM775
cp775
csPC775Baltic
windows-775
775
ibm-850_P100-1995
ibm-850
IBM850
cp850
850
csPC850Multilingual
windows-850
ibm-851_P100-1995
ibm-851
IBM851
cp851
851
csPC851
ibm-852_P100-1995
ibm-852
IBM852
cp852
852
csPCp852
windows-852
ibm-855_P100-1995
ibm-855
IBM855
cp855
855
csIBM855
csPCp855
windows-855
ibm-857_P100-1995
ibm-857
IBM857
cp857
857
csIBM857
windows-857
ibm-858_P100-1997
ibm-858
IBM00858
CCSID00858
CP00858
PC-Multilingual-850+euro
cp858
windows-858
ibm-860_P100-1995
ibm-860
IBM860
cp860
860
csIBM860
ibm-861_P100-1995
ibm-861
IBM861
cp861
861
cp-is
csIBM861
windows-861
ibm-862_P100-1995
ibm-862
IBM862
cp862
862
csPC862LatinHebrew
DOS-862
windows-862
ibm-863_P100-1995
ibm-863
IBM863
cp863
863
csIBM863
ibm-864_X110-1999
ibm-864
IBM864
cp864
csIBM864
ibm-865_P100-1995
ibm-865
IBM865
cp865
865
csIBM865
ibm-866_P100-1995
ibm-866
IBM866
cp866
866
csIBM866
windows-866
ibm-868_P100-1995
ibm-868
IBM868
CP868
868
csIBM868
cp-ar
ibm-869_P100-1995
ibm-869
IBM869
cp869
869
cp-gr
csIBM869
windows-869
ibm-878_P100-1996
ibm-878
KOI8-R
koi8
csKOI8R
windows-20866
cp878
ibm-1168_P100-2002
ibm-1168
KOI8-U
windows-21866
ibm-5346_P100-1998
ibm-5346
windows-1250
cp1250
ibm-5347_P100-1998
ibm-5347
windows-1251
cp1251
ANSI1251
ibm-5348_P100-1997
ibm-5348
windows-1252
cp1252
ibm-5349_P100-1998
ibm-5349
windows-1253
cp1253
ibm-5350_P100-1998
ibm-5350
windows-1254
cp1254
ibm-9447_P100-2002
ibm-9447
windows-1255
cp1255
ibm-9448_X100-2005
ibm-9448
windows-1256
cp1256
x-windows-1256S
ibm-9449_P100-2002
ibm-9449
windows-1257
cp1257
ibm-5354_P100-1998
ibm-5354
windows-1258
cp1258
macos-0_2-10.2
macintosh
mac
csMacintosh
windows-10000
macroman
x-macroman
macos-6_2-10.4
x-mac-greek
windows-10006
macgr
x-MacGreek
macos-7_3-10.2
x-mac-cyrillic
windows-10007
mac-cyrillic
maccy
x-MacCyrillic
x-MacUkraine
macos-29-10.2
x-mac-centraleurroman
windows-10029
x-mac-ce
macce
maccentraleurope
x-MacCentralEurope
macos-35-10.2
x-mac-turkish
windows-10081
mactr
x-MacTurkish
ibm-1051_P100-1995
ibm-1051
hp-roman8
roman8
r8
csHPRoman8
x-roman8
ibm-1276_P100-1995
ibm-1276
Adobe-Standard-Encoding
csAdobeStandardEncoding
ISO_2022
locale=ja
version=0
ISO-2022-JP
csISO2022JP
x-windows-iso2022jp
x-windows-50220
ISO_2022
locale=ja
version=1
ISO-2022-JP-1
JIS_Encoding
csJISEncoding
ibm-5054
JIS
x-windows-50221
ISO_2022
locale=ja
version=2
ISO-2022-JP-2
csISO2022JP2
ISO_2022
locale=ko
version=0
ISO-2022-KR
csISO2022KR
ISO_2022
locale=zh
version=0
ISO-2022-CN
csISO2022CN
x-ISO-2022-CN-GB
ISO_2022
locale=zh
version=1
ISO-2022-CN-EXT
HZ
HZ-GB-2312
ibm-37_P100-1995
ibm-37
IBM037
ibm-037
ebcdic-cp-us
ebcdic-cp-ca
ebcdic-cp-wt
ebcdic-cp-nl
csIBM037
cp037
037
cpibm37
cp37
ibm-273_P100-1995
ibm-273
IBM273
CP273
csIBM273
ebcdic-de
273
ibm-277_P100-1995
ibm-277
IBM277
cp277
EBCDIC-CP-DK
EBCDIC-CP-NO
csIBM277
ebcdic-dk
277
ibm-278_P100-1995
ibm-278
IBM278
cp278
ebcdic-cp-fi
ebcdic-cp-se
csIBM278
ebcdic-sv
278
ibm-280_P100-1995
ibm-280
IBM280
CP280
ebcdic-cp-it
csIBM280
280
ibm-284_P100-1995
ibm-284
IBM284
CP284
ebcdic-cp-es
csIBM284
cpibm284
284
ibm-285_P100-1995
ibm-285
IBM285
CP285
ebcdic-cp-gb
csIBM285
cpibm285
ebcdic-gb
285
ibm-290_P100-1995
ibm-290
IBM290
cp290
EBCDIC-JP-kana
csIBM290
ibm-297_P100-1995
ibm-297
IBM297
cp297
ebcdic-cp-fr
csIBM297
cpibm297
297
ibm-420_X120-1999
ibm-420
IBM420
cp420
ebcdic-cp-ar1
csIBM420
420
ibm-424_P100-1995
ibm-424
IBM424
cp424
ebcdic-cp-he
csIBM424
424
ibm-500_P100-1995
ibm-500
IBM500
CP500
ebcdic-cp-be
csIBM500
ebcdic-cp-ch
500
ibm-838_P100-1995
ibm-838
IBM838
IBM-Thai
csIBMThai
cp838
838
ibm-9030
ibm-870_P100-1995
ibm-870
IBM870
CP870
ebcdic-cp-roece
ebcdic-cp-yu
csIBM870
ibm-871_P100-1995
ibm-871
IBM871
ebcdic-cp-is
csIBM871
CP871
ebcdic-is
871
ibm-918_P100-1995
ibm-918
IBM918
CP918
ebcdic-cp-ar2
csIBM918
ibm-1026_P100-1995
ibm-1026
IBM1026
CP1026
csIBM1026
1026
ibm-1047_P100-1995
ibm-1047
IBM1047
cp1047
1047
ibm-1140_P100-1997
ibm-1140
IBM01140
CCSID01140
CP01140
cp1140
ebcdic-us-37+euro
ibm-1141_P100-1997
ibm-1141
IBM01141
CCSID01141
CP01141
cp1141
ebcdic-de-273+euro
ibm-1142_P100-1997
ibm-1142
IBM01142
CCSID01142
CP01142
cp1142
ebcdic-dk-277+euro
ebcdic-no-277+euro
ibm-1143_P100-1997
ibm-1143
IBM01143
CCSID01143
CP01143
cp1143
ebcdic-fi-278+euro
ebcdic-se-278+euro
ibm-1144_P100-1997
ibm-1144
IBM01144
CCSID01144
CP01144
cp1144
ebcdic-it-280+euro
ibm-1145_P100-1997
ibm-1145
IBM01145
CCSID01145
CP01145
cp1145
ebcdic-es-284+euro
ibm-1146_P100-1997
ibm-1146
IBM01146
CCSID01146
CP01146
cp1146
ebcdic-gb-285+euro
ibm-1147_P100-1997
ibm-1147
IBM01147
CCSID01147
CP01147
cp1147
ebcdic-fr-297+euro
ibm-1148_P100-1997
ibm-1148
IBM01148
CCSID01148
CP01148
cp1148
ebcdic-international-500+euro
ibm-1149_P100-1997
ibm-1149
IBM01149
CCSID01149
CP01149
cp1149
ebcdic-is-871+euro
TSCII

main()
{
  string templateFile;

/* An ISO file - fileToString().
    Writes the content of the ISO file to a string */
  bool ret = fileToString("D:\\Documents\\recodeISO.txt", templateFile, "ISO88591");
  DebugN("fileToString() return ", ret);
  dyn_string templateConfigs = strsplit(templateFile, '\n');
  DebugN("An ISO file to String",templateConfigs);


//ISO file - recode() function.
    Converts an ISO file to a UTF8 file
  bool ret2 = fileToString("D:\\Documents\\recodeISO.txt", templateFile);
  DebugN("fileToString() return ", ret2);
  templateFile = recode(templateFile, "ISO88591", "UTF8");
  dyn_string templateConfigs = strsplit(templateFile, '\n');
  DebugN("An ISO String to UTF",templateConfigs);
}

Assignment

File function