Encodings

Getting Started

Installation

julia> ]add Encodings

Basic Usage

julia> using Encodings

julia> data = encode("café com pão", ISO_LATIN_1())
12-element Vector{UInt8}:
 0x63
 0x61
 0x66
 0xe0
 0x20
 0x63
 0x6f
 0x6d
 0x20
 0x70
 0xe3
 0x6f

julia> decode(data, ISO_LATIN_1())
"café com pão"

Encoding/Decoding Error

Encodings provides two custom error types: EncodingError and DecodingError. They are raised when a given encoding doesn't supports some character:

julia> data = encode("μηχανικός means 'engineer' in greek", ISO_LATIN_1())
ERROR: Char 'μ' not available for encoding 'ISO_8859_1'
Stacktrace:
 [1] encoding_error(c::Char, e::ISO_8859_1)
   @ Encodings ~/.julia/packages/Encodings/9EX17/src/error.jl:24
 [2] encode
   @ ~/.julia/packages/Encodings/9EX17/src/encode.jl:19 [inlined]
 [3] #3
   @ ./none:0 [inlined]
 [4] iterate
   @ ./generator.jl:47 [inlined]
 [5] collect(itr::Base.Generator{String, Encodings.var"#3#5"{ISO_8859_1}})
   @ Base ./array.jl:724
 [6] encode(s::String, e::ISO_8859_1)
   @ Encodings ~/.julia/packages/Encodings/9EX17/src/encode.jl:6
 [7] top-level scope
   @ REPL[9]:1

Encoding/Decoding Fallbacks

Both encode and decode also dispatch over three-argument calls by adding a fallback parameter.

If it is nothing, codec failures are silently ignored:

julia> data = encode("μηχανικός means 'engineer' in greek", ISO_LATIN_1(), nothing)
26-element Vector{UInt8}:
 0x20
 0x6d
 0x65
 0x61
 0x6e
 0x73
    ⋮
 0x20
 0x67
 0x72
 0x65
 0x65
 0x6b

julia> decode(data, ISO_LATIN_1())
" means 'engineer' in greek"

If it is a UInt8 (for encoding) or a Char (for decoding), the troubling entry is replaced by the given fallback:

julia> data = encode("μηχανικός means 'engineer' in greek", ISO_LATIN_1(), UInt8('?'))
35-element Vector{UInt8}:
 0x3f
 0x3f
 0x3f
 0x3f
 0x3f
 0x3f
    ⋮
 0x20
 0x67
 0x72
 0x65
 0x65
 0x6b

julia> decode(data, ISO_LATIN_1())
"????????? means 'engineer' in greek"

Supported Encodings

Name	Encoding Type
ISO-8859-1	ISO_8859_1 ISO_LATIN_1