string.isCharsetAvailable

Determines if the specified character set is available in the operating system.

string.isCharsetAvailabe( charsetName )

charsetName is a string, the IANA-registered name of a character set like “iso-8859-1” or “macintosh”

A boolean: true if the character set is available, false otherwise.

string.isCharsetAvailable( "macintosh" )

true

string.isCharsetAvailable( "shift_jis" )

true

string.isCharsetAvailable( "windows" )

false

string.isCharsetAvailable( "windows-1252" )

true

None.

Many character sets have more than one name. The alternate names should work just as well as the canonical name. It just depends on the support provided by the underlying operating system.

• string.convertCharset