Character conversion file makes it possible to convert between different character coding systems. Each row in file has two characters separated by space or tab. First character is Windows ANSI (ISO_LATIN_1) character used by 3D-Win and the second is other system’s character.
Special characters can be given with one of the following codings: U+0020, #x20, #32, %20. All mentioned values mean space character, which has decimal value of 32 and hexadecimal value 20. First version cab also be used to define Unicode characters.
If the first character is zero, the second characater is removed from the text. For example, line #0 #32 removes all spaces from the text.
If the text "utf8" is given as a character conversion file, all UTF8-texts are converted to ANSI-texts used by the program.
Examples:
Conversion from 7-bit unix systems to Windows
Å ]
Ä [
Ö \
å }
ä {
ö |
Conversion can also be used to convert between uppercase and lowercase characters:
A a B b C c D d E e F f etc...
Character conversion works only with texts, not with code fields. There is example MSDOS.DAT file distributed with program for DOS-Windows conversion.