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Character Encoding and Conversion Plug-ins Overview

The Charconv Plug-ins component contains plug-in converters for Charconv.

The character converters built into the Charconv Framework are used for most languages. However the range of languages can be increased by adding additional Character Encoding and Conversion plug-ins. Symbian provides a number of plug-ins. Device creators may also create plug-ins.

Architecture

The Charconv Plug-ins component is part of the Character Conversion (Charconv) Framework collection. It contains ECom plug-ins which implement the CCharacterSetConverterPluginInterface interface for use with the Charconv Framework. Each library in the Plug-ins component is a plug-in converter for a specific character encoding.

Libraries (plug-in converters)

The following table lists the plug-in converters and the target scripts. Each converter is identified by a Unique Identifier (UID). The UIDs are defined in the charconv.h header file.

Converter Name	Target script
ISO 8859-6	Arabic
ISO 8859-13	Baltic
ISO 8859-14	Celtic
ISO 8859-2	Central European
GB2312	Chinese (Simplified)
GBK	Chinese (Simplified)
HZ	Chinese (Simplified)
GB18030	Chinese (Simplified) GB18030
Big5	Chinese (Traditional)
GB12345	Chinese (Traditional)
ISO 8859-5	Cyrillic
ISO 8859-7	Greek
ISO 8859-8	Hebrew
eucJP	Japanese
ISO-2022-JP	Japanese
ISO-2022-JP1	Japanese
JIS	Japanese
JIS X 0201	Japanese
JIS X 0208	Japanese
JIS X 0212	Japanese
J5 DoCoMo	Japanese encoding for DoCoMo
Shift-JIS DoCoMo	Japanese encoding for DoCoMo
J5 KDDI	Japanese encoding for KDDI
Shift-JIS KDDI	Japanese encoding for KDDI
ISO 8859-10	Nordic
ISO 8859-4	Northern European
ISO 8859-3	South European
ISO 8859-9	Turkish
Default GSM7 Turkish Single	Turkish
Turkish Locking GSM7 Extension	Turkish
Turkish Locking Single	Turkish
Default GSM 7bit & Portuguese Single Shift	Portuguese
Portuguese Locking Shift & GSM 7Bit Extension	Portuguese
Portuguese Locking Shift & Single Shift	Portuguese
Default GSM 7 bit & Spanish Single Shift	Spanish
Extended SMS	Eastern European
UCS-2	Universal (Unicode)
ISO 8859-15	Western European / US
CP 850	Western European / US

Typical uses

Charconv Plug-ins can be used to do character conversion for target scripts. Each plug-in converter converts text between a foreign encoding and Unicode.

Parent topic: Character Encoding and Conversion Plug-ins Component