Charset Component Features

• Converts text data from one character encoding to another.
• Works identically on all computers, regardless of locale or internationalization settings.
• Supports Unicode, iso-8859-*, windows-*, utf-7, utf-8, utf-16, utf-32, Shift_JIS, gb2312, ks_c_5601-1987, big5, iso-2022-*, euc-jp, euc-kr, x-mac-*, asmo-708, ibm*, dos-*, koi8-*. (Full list of charset names).
• Convert from any supported charset to any other supported charset.
• Option to drop non-convertable characters.
• Option to substitute pre-defined bytes for non-convertable characters.
• Option to substitute hex-escaped string (XXXX) for non-convertable characters.
• Option to convert to an alternative charset for non-convertable characters.
• Option to pass through non-convertable characters unchanged.
• When converting HTML, can automatically update the META tag that specifies the charset.
• File-to-file conversion.
• Check for errors in file or in-memory data.
• Convert charset names to code page numbers, and back.