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Programming With the Text Encoding Conversion Manager

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Unicode Converter Reference

This chapter describes the types, constants, and functions pertaining to the Unicode Converter.

For a description of types, constants, and functions pertaining to text encodings and their specifications and for result codes returned by Unicode Converter functions, see Basic Text Types Reference For a description of types, constants, and functions pertaining to the Text Encoding Converter, see Text Encoding Converter Reference

The Unicode Converter provides mapping table conversion to or from Unicode. Its primary use is to convert text from any text encoding to Unicode or to convert Unicode text to any text encoding. It does not provide direct conversion between any two non-Unicode encodings, nor does it handle algorithmic code conversions (such as JIS to Shift-JIS) or code-switching schemes (ISO 2022, for example). However, when you want control over the conversion mapping process and extensive error reporting, you can use the Unicode Converter to convert between two text encodings using Unicode as the hub.

Unicode Converter Constants

Unicode Converter Structures and Other Types

Unicode Converter Functions

Application-Defined Function