Overview
A lightweight Flutter package for converting text between different character encodings, leveraging the underlying platform's native encoding support. It requires no external dependencies, ensuring efficient and reliable conversion across platforms including Android, iOS, Windows, and Linux. Ideal for handling legacy or non-UTF-8 text data in applications that process internationalized content or work with diverse file formats.
Use cases
- Converting legacy text files from ISO-8859-1 to UTF-8
- Processing web scraping outputs with unknown encodings
- Handling multilingual user input in apps
- Reading configuration files with non-standard encodings
Key features
- Uses native platform encoding APIs
- No external dependencies
- Cross-platform compatibility
- Simple synchronous API
- Supports common character sets
Suitable for
- Apps processing international text
- Data migration tools
- File format parsers
- Legacy system integrations
Considerations
- Relies on platform-specific encoding implementations
- Limited to supported encodings by the OS
- No built-in fallback mechanisms
- Not suitable for complex encoding detection