Converts between different character encodings. On UNIX, this uses the iconv library, on Windows the Windows API.
Procs
proc getCurrentEncoding(): string {.raises: [], tags: [].}
- retrieves the current encoding. On Unix, always "UTF-8" is returned. Source
proc open(destEncoding = "UTF-8"; srcEncoding = "CP1252"): EncodingConverter {. raises: [EncodingError], tags: [].}
- opens a converter that can convert from srcEncoding to destEncoding. Raises EIO if it cannot fulfill the request. Source
proc close(c: EncodingConverter) {.raises: [], tags: [].}
- frees the resources the converter c holds. Source
proc convert(c: EncodingConverter; s: string): string {.raises: [OSError], tags: [].}
- Source
proc convert(s: string; destEncoding = "UTF-8"; srcEncoding = "CP1252"): string {. raises: [EncodingError, OSError], tags: [].}
- converts s to destEncoding. It assumed that s is in srcEncoding. This opens a converter, uses it and closes it again and is thus more convienent but also likely less efficient than re-using a converter. Source