Library: Character encodings, JIS (OMFFJIS) Import: omffjis.xmd

Return type: Source Returns:  A scannable input source for streaming data

Declaration

  export external source function reader
                    from value source input-data

Use reader to read a value source, its argument, and return the text of that file converted from a JIS encoding to a UTF-8 encoding. That is, the provided source is in JIS, but the program sees UTF-8.

Usage Note

To use reader, you must import omffjis.xmd into your program using a statement like this:

  import "omffjis.xmd" prefixed by jis.

(Please see the import topic for more on importing.)

Example

  ; Submit the JIS-encoded file named by the first command-line
  ; argument to the program's find  rules, converting from JIS
  ; to UTF-8 prior to the  find  rules seeing the data:
  import "omffjis.xmd" prefixed by jis.
  process
     submit jis.reader from file #args [1]

Other Library Functions    jis.reader    jis.writer

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