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sjis-input-file

 
 

Library: Character encodings, international (OMEFIO)
Include: omefio.xin

Declaration

define external string source function sjis-input-file
                value string filename
  exceptions-to value io-exception exceptions-to optional


Purpose

This external function reads the file named by the "filename" argument and returns the text of that file converted from a Shift-JIS encoding to a UTF-8 encoding. The file is in Shift-JIS, but the program receives the UTF-8 conversion.

Arguments:

The file format is interpreted according to the Japanese Industry Standards JIS X 0201, JIS X 0208, and JIS X 0212, transformed using the JIS<->Shift-JIS conversion algorithms.

Example:

  ; Submitting a Shift-JIS file to the XML parser and directing the output to another.
  ; Shift-JIS file.
  
  do xml-parse document scan sjis-input-file "input.shj"
     set sjis-output-file "output.shj" to "%c"
  done

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