Enough-Software/enough_convert

Support for character encodings / charsets / codecs missing from dart:convert.

Supports the following encodings:

• Latin / ISO 8859 encodings:
  • Latin 1 / ISO 8859-1
  • Latin 2 / ISO 8859-2
  • Latin 3 / ISO 8859-3
  • Latin 4 / ISO 8859-4
  • Latin 5 / ISO 8859-5
  • Latin 6 / ISO 8859-6
  • Latin 7 / ISO 8859-7
  • Latin 8 / ISO 8859-8
  • Latin 9 / ISO 8859-9
  • Latin 10 / ISO 8859-10
  • Latin 11 / ISO 8859-11
  • Latin 13 / ISO 8859-13
  • Latin 14 / ISO 8859-14
  • Latin 15 / ISO 8859-15
  • Latin 16 / ISO 8859-16
• Windows Codepage Encodings:
  • Windows-1250 / cp-1250
  • Windows-1251 / cp-1251
  • Windows-1252 / cp-1252
  • Windows-1253 / cp-1253
  • Windows-1254 / cp-1254
  • Windows-1255 / cp-1255
  • Windows-1256 / cp-1256
• DOS Codepage Encodings:
  • cp-850
• GBK (compatible with GB-2312)
• KOI8
  • KOI8-R
  • KOI8-U
• Big5

Usage

Using enough_convert is pretty straight forward:

import 'package:enough_convert/enough_convert.dart';

main() {
  final codec = const Windows1252Codec(allowInvalid: false);
  final input = 'Il faut être bête quand même.';
  final encoded = codec.encode(input);
  final decoded = codec.decode([...encoded]);
  print('${codec.name}: encode "$input" to "$encoded"');
  print('${codec.name}: decode $encoded to "$decoded"');

}

Installation

Add this dependency your pubspec.yaml file:

dependencies:
  enough_convert: ^1.6.0

The latest version or enough_convert is enough_convert version.

Wait, what is this about?

Dylan (not associated with this project in any way) explains the world of text encoding quite well: Plain text? Really?

It's 2022, do we still need this?

Short answer: yes.

Long answer: yes, there are still many web pages, emails and other content out there that is encoded in various text encodings.

Features and bugs

Please file feature requests and bugs at the issue tracker.

Null-Safety

enough_convert is null-safe from v1.0.0 onward.

License

enough_convert is licensed under the commercial friendly Mozilla Public License 2.0