strcvt
strcvt — converts the Windows character set of a string.
Synopsis
strcvt (string, from?, to?)
Arguments
stringThe string that you need to convert.
fromAn optional argument specifying the Windows code page identifier for the local character set. If no value is entered, the default is
0, for your system's code page identifier.toAn optional argument specifying the Windows code page identifier of the new character set for the string. If no value is entered, the default is
65001, for UTF8.
Returns
The converted string.
Description
This function lets Windows users convert the local character set for a
given string into a different character set. In many cases, this function is
used to convert the local character set into UTF8, and can thus be run with
a single string argument, using the defaults for the
from and to arguments. A
list of valid Windows code page identifiers for various character sets can
be found online in the Microsoft documentation, or by searching on the term
"code page identifiers".
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