More Text Encoding conversion for FileMaker

FileMaker itself understands a few text encodings. And with our various plugin formats we offer them directly to use within the plugin. We usually only document the short list: ANSI, Mac, Latin1, ISO-8859-1, Windows, Native, UTF-8 and DOS.

But the following encodings also work: ShiftJIS-Mac, ShiftJIS-Win, Korean-Mac, Korean-Win, Korean-Johab, ChineseTrad-Mac, ChineseTrad-Win, ChineseSimp-Mac, ChineseSimp-Win, Cyrillic-Mac, Cyrillic-Win, ISO-8859-5, CentralEurope-Mac, EasternEurope-Win, ISO-8859-2, Turkish-Mac, Turkish-Win, ISO-8859-3, ISO-8859-9, Baltic-Win, ISO-8859-4, Arabic-Mac, Arabic-Win, ISO-8859-6, Greek-Mac, Greek-Win, ISO-8859-7, Hebrew-Mac, Hebrew-Win, ISO-8859-8 or ISO-8859-15.

But what if you have a more exotic text encoding or an old DOS code page? Like CP865?

We added a new function Text.ConvertToTextEncoding to convert from normal text to any encoding in a long list. The result is hex encoded as we otherwise can't really show you the text. So you can pass the hex encoded text in the specific encoding to other functions like BinaryFile.WriteHex, Socket.WriteHex or SerialPort.WriteHex. If you need to decode back, you can use the new Text.ConvertFromTextEncoding function.

The list of supported encodings and their alias names is:

ANSI_X3.4-1968,ANSI_X3.4-1986,ASCII,CP367,IBM367,ISO-IR-6,ISO646-US,ISO_646.IRV:1991,US,US-ASCII,CSASCII
UTF-8
ISO-10646-UCS-2,UCS-2,CSUNICODE
UCS-2BE,UNICODE-1-1,UNICODEBIG,CSUNICODE11
UCS-2LE,UNICODELITTLE
ISO-10646-UCS-4,UCS-4,CSUCS4
UCS-4BE
UCS-4LE
UTF-16
UTF-16BE
UTF-16LE
UTF-32
UTF-32BE
UTF-32LE
UNICODE-1-1-UTF-7,UTF-7,CSUNICODE11UTF7
UCS-2-INTERNAL
UCS-2-SWAPPED
UCS-4-INTERNAL
UCS-4-SWAPPED
C99
JAVA
CP819,IBM819,ISO-8859-1,ISO-IR-100,ISO8859-1,ISO_8859-1,ISO_8859-1:1987,L1,LATIN1,CSISOLATIN1
ISO-8859-2,ISO-IR-101,ISO8859-2,ISO_8859-2,ISO_8859-2:1987,L2,LATIN2,CSISOLATIN2
ISO-8859-3,ISO-IR-109,ISO8859-3,ISO_8859-3,ISO_8859-3:1988,L3,LATIN3,CSISOLATIN3
ISO-8859-4,ISO-IR-110,ISO8859-4,ISO_8859-4,ISO_8859-4:1988,L4,LATIN4,CSISOLATIN4
CYRILLIC,ISO-8859-5,ISO-IR-144,ISO8859-5,ISO_8859-5,ISO_8859-5:1988,CSISOLATINCYRILLIC
ARABIC,ASMO-708,ECMA-114,ISO-8859-6,ISO-IR-127,ISO8859-6,ISO_8859-6,ISO_8859-6:1987,CSISOLATINARABIC
ECMA-118,ELOT_928,GREEK,GREEK8,ISO-8859-7,ISO-IR-126,ISO8859-7,ISO_8859-7,ISO_8859-7:1987,ISO_8859-7:2003,CSISOLATINGREEK
HEBREW,ISO-8859-8,ISO-IR-138,ISO8859-8,ISO_8859-8,ISO_8859-8:1988,CSISOLATINHEBREW
ISO-8859-9,ISO-IR-148,ISO8859-9,ISO_8859-9,ISO_8859-9:1989,L5,LATIN5,CSISOLATIN5
ISO-8859-10,ISO-IR-157,ISO8859-10,ISO_8859-10,ISO_8859-10:1992,L6,LATIN6,CSISOLATIN6
ISO-8859-11,ISO8859-11,ISO_8859-11
ISO-8859-13,ISO-IR-179,ISO8859-13,ISO_8859-13,L7,LATIN7
ISO-8859-14,ISO-CELTIC,ISO-IR-199,ISO8859-14,ISO_8859-14,ISO_8859-14:1998,L8,LATIN8
ISO-8859-15,ISO-IR-203,ISO8859-15,ISO_8859-15,ISO_8859-15:1998,LATIN-9
ISO-8859-16,ISO-IR-226,ISO8859-16,ISO_8859-16,ISO_8859-16:2001,L10,LATIN10
KOI8-R,CSKOI8R
KOI8-U
KOI8-RU
CP1250,MS-EE,WINDOWS-1250
CP1251,MS-CYRL,WINDOWS-1251
CP1252,MS-ANSI,WINDOWS-1252
CP1253,MS-GREEK,WINDOWS-1253
CP1254,MS-TURK,WINDOWS-1254
CP1255,MS-HEBR,WINDOWS-1255
CP1256,MS-ARAB,WINDOWS-1256
CP1257,WINBALTRIM,WINDOWS-1257
CP1258,WINDOWS-1258
850,CP850,IBM850,CSPC850MULTILINGUAL
862,CP862,IBM862,CSPC862LATINHEBREW
866,CP866,IBM866,CSIBM866
CP1131
MAC,MACINTOSH,MACROMAN,CSMACINTOSH
MACCENTRALEUROPE
MACICELAND
MACCROATIAN
MACROMANIA
MACCYRILLIC
MACUKRAINE
MACGREEK
MACTURKISH
MACHEBREW
MACARABIC
MACTHAI
HP-ROMAN8,R8,ROMAN8,CSHPROMAN8
NEXTSTEP
ARMSCII-8
GEORGIAN-ACADEMY
GEORGIAN-PS
KOI8-T
CP154,CYRILLIC-ASIAN,PT154,PTCP154,CSPTCP154
KZ-1048,RK1048,STRK1048-2002,CSKZ1048
MULELAO-1
CP1133,IBM-CP1133
ISO-IR-166,TIS-620,TIS620,TIS620-0,TIS620.2529-1,TIS620.2533-0,TIS620.2533-1
CP874,WINDOWS-874
VISCII,VISCII1.1-1,CSVISCII
TCVN,TCVN-5712,TCVN5712-1,TCVN5712-1:1993
ISO-IR-14,ISO646-JP,JIS_C6220-1969-RO,JP,CSISO14JISC6220RO
JISX0201-1976,JIS_X0201,X0201,CSHALFWIDTHKATAKANA
ISO-IR-87,JIS0208,JIS_C6226-1983,JIS_X0208,JIS_X0208-1983,JIS_X0208-1990,X0208,CSISO87JISX0208
ISO-IR-159,JIS_X0212,JIS_X0212-1990,JIS_X0212.1990-0,X0212,CSISO159JISX02121990
CN,GB_1988-80,ISO-IR-57,ISO646-CN,CSISO57GB1988
CHINESE,GB_2312-80,ISO-IR-58,CSISO58GB231280
CN-GB-ISOIR165,ISO-IR-165
ISO-IR-149,KOREAN,KSC_5601,KS_C_5601-1987,KS_C_5601-1989,CSKSC56011987
EUC-JP,EUCJP,EXTENDED_UNIX_CODE_PACKED_FORMAT_FOR_JAPANESE,CSEUCPKDFMTJAPANESE
MS_KANJI,SHIFT-JIS,SHIFT_JIS,SJIS,CSSHIFTJIS
CP932
ISO-2022-JP,CSISO2022JP
ISO-2022-JP-1
ISO-2022-JP-2,CSISO2022JP2
CP50221,ISO-2022-JP-MS
CN-GB,EUC-CN,EUCCN,GB2312,CSGB2312
GBK
CP936,MS936,WINDOWS-936
GB18030
ISO-2022-CN,CSISO2022CN
ISO-2022-CN-EXT
HZ,HZ-GB-2312
EUC-TW,EUCTW,CSEUCTW
BIG-5,BIG-FIVE,BIG5,BIGFIVE,CN-BIG5,CSBIG5
CP950
BIG5-HKSCS:1999
BIG5-HKSCS:2001
BIG5-HKSCS:2004
BIG5-HKSCS,BIG5-HKSCS:2008,BIG5HKSCS
EUC-KR,EUCKR,CSEUCKR
CP949,UHC
CP1361,JOHAB
ISO-2022-KR,CSISO2022KR
CP856
CP922
CP943
CP1046
CP1124
CP1129
CP1161,IBM-1161,IBM1161,CSIBM1161
CP1162,IBM-1162,IBM1162,CSIBM1162
CP1163,IBM-1163,IBM1163,CSIBM1163
DEC-KANJI
DEC-HANYU
437,CP437,IBM437,CSPC8CODEPAGE437
CP737
CP775,IBM775,CSPC775BALTIC
852,CP852,IBM852,CSPCP852
CP853
855,CP855,IBM855,CSIBM855
857,CP857,IBM857,CSIBM857
CP858
860,CP860,IBM860,CSIBM860
861,CP-IS,CP861,IBM861,CSIBM861
863,CP863,IBM863,CSIBM863
CP864,IBM864,CSIBM864
865,CP865,IBM865,CSIBM865
869,CP-GR,CP869,IBM869,CSIBM869
CP1125
EUC-JIS-2004,EUC-JISX0213
SHIFT_JIS-2004,SHIFT_JISX0213
ISO-2022-JP-2004,ISO-2022-JP-3
BIG5-2003
ISO-IR-230,TDS565
ATARI,ATARIST
RISCOS-LATIN1

The new function will be included in the next 9.4 prerelease version.

PS: Same functionality is available for Xojo with out TextConverterMBS class in MBS Xojo Tools Plugin.