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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. Claris FileMaker Plugin
14 08 19 - 14:26