Explicit Conversions
A converter is an object that converts text from one encoding to another. The Internationalization Module provides two converter classes:
RWUToUnicodeConverter converts text from any recognized encoding to UTF-16, in the natural endian order for the platform in use.
RWUFromUnicodeConverter converts text from UTF-16 to any recognized encoding.
An
explicit conversion uses an instance of
RWUToUnicodeConverter or
RWUFromUnicodeConverter to specify how a particular conversion should be performed. The following sections describe how to create and manipulate converters.