Tiniconv.ldg (22.08.2015 - 10:25 Uhr)

Pierre Tonthat has ported Tiniconv to the ST. Tiniconv is a library for converting character sets and is based on the GNU libiconv. It has been simplified enough to run on computers with limited memory. Different character set tables have plagued the computer world for decades. Only the printable characters of the ASCII code are standardized, country and operating system specific extensions store additional characters in different places. Only with Unicode was a standard created that offered enough space for all characters.

The ST version of Tiniconv was extended with the ATARIST and Unicode UTF16 character sets from the original iconv library. Tiniconv is available as an LDG file, so it is a dynamic library that can be used by programs as needed. Application examples exist so far for the C language and GFA-Basic. Tiniconv.ldg is not the first system extension for character set conversion: Thomas Much's KEYTAB also allowed this, but supported fewer character sets.

http://ptonthat.fr/