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Text.ConvertFromTextEncoding
Converts text from a text encoding.
Component |
Version |
macOS |
Windows |
Linux |
Server |
iOS SDK |
Text
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9.4 |
✅ Yes
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✅ Yes
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✅ Yes
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✅ Yes
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✅ Yes
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MBS( "Text.ConvertFromTextEncoding"; Text; Encoding )
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MBS(
"Text.ConvertFromTextEncoding"; /* Converts text from a text encoding. */
$Text; /* The hex encoded text to convert.e.g. "48656C6C6F209B9D" */
$Encoding) /* The source encoding.e.g. "CP465" */
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Parameters
Parameter |
Description |
Example |
Text |
The hex encoded text to convert. |
"48656C6C6F209B9D" |
Encoding |
The source encoding. |
"CP465" |
Result
Returns text or error.
Description
Converts text from a text encoding.
Returns text in unicode as FileMaker needs it.
As we use iconv library here, we can handle many more encodings than the standard FileMaker text functions used within the plugin.
Encoding list with alternative names:
- 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
See also Text.ConvertToTextEncoding function.
This functionality needs libiconv. On macOS, iOS and Linux we try to load the library coming with the OS. If you use Windows or like to use a custom library, please use Plugin.LoadIconvLibrary function to load it before calling this function.
Without iconv library, only a minimum functionality is done by plugin directly to keep basic functionality working.
Examples
Convert from nordic:
MBS( "Text.ConvertFromTextEncoding"; "48656C6C6F209B9D"; "CP865" )
Example result: "Hello øØ"
See also
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Created 13th August 2019, last changed 22nd January 2021
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