Hi,

How to I convert a file that contains text in the DOS charset to UTF-8. I need this to work under Linux and Windows.

The DOS charset characters used, are for box drawing and arrows. They currently appear on my system (Linux) as follows:

???statement???????

I found the relevant character mapping tables at the Unicode website - mapping from DOS codepage to unicode characters. The one I am interested in is CP437 to Unicode.

http://www.unicode.org/Public/MAPPINGS/VENDORS/MICSFT/PC/

Is such mappings already implemented in Lazarus somewhere?

Zitat von Graeme Geldenhuys :

I added it to lcl/lconvencoding.pas.
This is also used by the IDE context menu.

Mattias

Mattias G?rtner wrote

I added it to lcl/lconvencoding.pas. This is also used by the IDE context menu.

Fantastic! Thanks Mattias for the prompt implementation.

Just a little correction. The comment of the function says:
function CP437ToUTF8(const s: string): string;  // DOS central europe

According to the page
http://msdn.microsoft.com/de-de/goglobal/bb964655%28en-us%29.aspx it should be: //DOS US

Ingo

2009/10/19 shoKwave :

According to the page http://msdn.microsoft.com/de-de/goglobal/bb964655%28en-us%29.aspx it should be: //DOS US

According to Unicode.org it's DOS Latin US, so yes, you are close. :-)

2009/10/19 Mattias G?rtner :

Out of interest. Did you manually code the mapping, or is there a tool that you run to generate the Pascal code from the cp437.txt file?