Class
TextConverter
Description
Used to convert text from one encoding system to another.
Method descriptions
TextConverter.Clear
Clear
Clears the state of the TextConverter object for converting a new string.
Var c As TextConverter
c = GetTextConverter(GetTextEncoding(&h500), GetTextEncoding(0))
TextArea2.Text = c.Convert(TextArea1.Text)
c.Clear
TextConverter.Convert
Convert(text As String) As String
Converts text. Returns the converted text as a String.
The following example converts the text in a TextField:
Var c As TextConverter
c = GetTextConverter(GetTextEncoding(&h500), GetTextEncoding(0))
TextArea2.Text = c.Convert(TextArea1.Text)
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 |
DOSIcelandic |
&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 |
WindowsCyrillic |
&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 |
Sample code
The following example converts the text in a TextField:
Var c As TextConverter
c = GetTextConverter(GetTextEncoding(&h500), GetTextEncoding(0))
TextField2.Text = c.Convert(TextField1.Text)
Compatibility
All project types on all supported operating systems.
See also
Object parent class; ConvertEncoding, DefineEncoding, Encoding, GetTextConverter functions; TextEncoding class; Encodings module.