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UTF-8 and UTF-16 are “variable width” implementations using a minimum of 8 and 16 bits respectively, UTF-32 is fixed width and always uses 32 bits. There are various Unicode flavours UTF-8, UTF-16 and UTF-32. The solution was to develop Unicode which includes characters for all languages (it uses up to 32 bits – so it can handle a lot of characters…).

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This made for much pain (and switching between code pages) when dealing with multiple languages.

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Unfortunately 256 characters is insufficient for all characters in all languages so different “code pages” for individual languages were developed (see Windows code page). A great battle ensued and ASCII became the common standard and eventually evolved from a 7 bit (max 128 characters) to an 8 bit (max 256 characters) standard called Extended ASCII.

Some historical background (skip if you want):Ī long time ago in a Galaxy far away there were ASCII (a 7 bit encoding system) and EBCDIC (a technically superior 8 bit encoding system).

Convert the UTF-8 encoded data to the target encoding (or even multiple encodings) before transmitting/saving the data.

View and manipulate the UTF-8 encoded data in the Translator.

Convert from your source encoding to UTF-8.

Note: You may find it more convenient to use UTF-8 as an intermediary, rather than translating directly to the final target encoding, because UTF-8 is easier to work with in Iguana Translator (as it displays correctly in the browser). Transliteration is usually the best option, but you can choose to ignore characters if it better suits your requirements. For example with Hungarian the following long vowels are missing Ő, ő, Ű, ű, if you use the transliterate option they are converted to O, o, U, u respectively. Two workarounds are offered by iconv: transliterate and ignore (append “//TRANSLIT” or “//IGNORE” to the target encoding when using our nvert() function). If you are translating from Central European languages (such as Polish, Czech, Slovak, Hungarian, Slovene, Bosnian, Croatian, Serbian etc.) encodings ( ISO-8859-2, CP1250) to standard western encoding (ISO-8859-1, CP1252) then a few characters are missing. Care should be taken when doing this as most encodings are not entirely compatible, as some characters in the source encoding will be missing from the target encoding. You can also use iconv for converting directly between different language encodings. However UTF-8 is “safer” as it works with as a target for any encoding – so if you are unsure just convert to UTF-8.

Tip: In this case we could also have converted directly into ISO-8859-1 (western character) encoding, which works for most modern languages, and is very similar to CP1252. The second thing is that internet browsers (like Chrome, Firefox etc.) will recognize UTF-8 and display the characters correctly, which makes strings easier to work with in the Translator.įor example if you receive some Spanish text encoded as CP1252 ( Windows code page 1252), it might look like this “ El hardware inal\225mbrico no autorizado se puede introducir f\255cilmente.“, once converted to UTF-8 the “\225” is displayed as “á” which is much easier to read “ El hardware inalámbrico no autorizado se puede introducir fácilmente.“. Why would we want to convert text to UTF-8 encoding? The first thing is that UTF-8 is a standard Unicode implementation so it is compatible with (is a superset of) all single language encodings.

The most common uses of iconv will be for converting incoming text from language specific encodings into the UTF-8 ( Unicode) character set, and converting from UTF-8 to a language specific coding. Use iconv to change character string encoding. If you are already familiar with this you will probably want to skip to the Examples using iconv below and take a look at our iconv API reference. The iconv API is used for converting strings between different character encodings, it exposes the libiconv functionality embedded within Iguana.