Creates a TextConverter object for converting between two encodings. It also works if the input encoding and output encoding are the same.

Syntax
result = GetTextConverter( inputEncoding, outputEncoding )

Parameters
inputEncoding	TextEncoding	Input text encoding.
outputEncoding	TextEncoding	Output text encoding.

Return Value
Result	TextConverter	Object of type TextConverter, used to perform conversion from InputEncoding to OutputEncoding.

Notes

In REALbasic, every string may internally have a record of its encoding as well as the bytes that constitute its actual text. In many cases, the encoding is unknown, but any string returned by a TextConverter will have a known encoding, and so will be treated properly by EditFields and Graphics.DrawString. This is why it may sometimes be useful to get a TextConverter where the input and output encodings are the same; it provides a way to make sure that REALbasic knows what encoding a string represents.

Example

The following example converts the text in an EditField:

Dim c as TextConverter
c=GetTextConverter( GetTextEncoding( &h500), GetTextEncoding(0))
EditField2.text=c.convert(EditField1.text)

Notes

Example

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