DESCRIPTION¶
Convert the string str from charset from_cs to charset to_cs and return the converted string.
The charsets for from_cs and to_cs are given by name, and both lowercase and uppercase are accepted.
The efun is only available on systems with libiconv installed and the actual capabilities / available charsets depend on the host systems’s libiconv/libc.
Usually, the following charsets for from_cs and to_cs are available:
- The Locale the driver is running under
- “” (the empty string)
- European languages
- ASCII, ISO-8859-{1,2,3,4,5,7,9,10,13,14,15,16}, KOI8-R, KOI8-U, KOI8-RU, CP{1250,1251,1252,1253,1254,1257}, CP{850,866}, Mac{Roman,CentralEurope,Iceland,Croatian,Romania}, Mac{Cyrillic,Ukraine,Greek,Turkish}, Macintosh
- Semitic languages
- ISO-8859-{6,8}, CP{1255,1256}, CP862, Mac{Hebrew,Arabic}
- Japanese
- EUC-JP, SHIFT_JIS, CP932, ISO-2022-JP, ISO-2022-JP-2, ISO-2022-JP-1
- Chinese
- EUC-CN, HZ, GBK, GB18030, EUC-TW, BIG5, CP950, BIG5-HKSCS, ISO-2022-CN, ISO-2022-CN-EXT
- Korean
- EUC-KR, CP949, ISO-2022-KR, JOHAB
- Armenian
- ARMSCII-8
- Georgian
- Georgian-Academy, Georgian-PS
- Tajik
- KOI8-T
- Thai
- TIS-620, CP874, MacThai
- Laotian
- MuleLao-1, CP1133
- Vietnamese
- VISCII, TCVN, CP1258
- Platform specifics
- HP-ROMAN8, NEXTSTEP
- Full Unicode
- UTF-8, UCS-2, UCS-2BE, UCS-2LE, UCS-4, UCS-4BE, UCS-4LE, UTF-16, UTF-16BE, UTF-16LE, UTF-32, UTF-32BE, UTF-32LE UTF-7 C99, JAVA
On some systems, the following additional charsets might be supported as well:
- European languages
- CP{437,737,775,852,853,855,857,858,860,861,863,865,869,1125}
- Semitic languages
- CP864
- Japanese
- EUC-JISX0213, Shift_JISX0213, ISO-2022-JP-3
- Turkmen
- TDS565
- Platform specifics
- RISCOS-LATIN1
HISTORY¶
- introduced (3.3.531)