Unicode to ASCII conversion

[Christian Kaufmann]

Hi,

I have text as normal 8-bit characters and I know for example, that
the Windows Codepage 1250, 1252 or 1253 was used. Now I need a
function, that converts the text to unicode. Something like this:

function TextToUnicode(const AText: String; AEncoding: TEncoding):
WideString;

Then I'm looking for a function, that converts special characters to
ASCII (a-z) characters. Examples:

ä >> a
ö >> o
Unicode #261 >> a
Unicode #322 >> l

I know, that this doesn't work for all characters, but it works for
some of the Eastern Europe charactersets.

Any tips are welcome, before I start to type my own conversion table.

cu Christian

[danny heijl]

Christian Kaufmann schreef:

> I have text as normal 8-bit characters and I know for example, that
> the Windows Codepage 1250, 1252 or 1253 was used. Now I need a
> function, that converts the text to unicode.

MultiByteToWideChar (a Windows API function) using the correct codepage
parameter does this.

Danny
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[Ralf Junker - http://www.yunqa.de/delphi/]

Hello Christian,

my DIConverters library supports Unicode <-> ANSI (or, more appropriately:
Unicode <-> multi-byte) conversion for more than 130 character sets, encodings
and transformation formats, including of course Windows 1250, 1252 and 1253:

http://www.yunqa.de/delphi/converters/

If you find using those functions to cumbersome, there is also my DIUnicode text
reader and writer library. It has its own build-in conversion and can also be
linked against DIConverters:

http://www.yunqa.de/delphi/unicode/

Regards,

Ralf

Christian Kaufmann <christian...@gmx.net> wrote:

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