(Visual FoxPro) StringBuilder Encode Charset

Demonstrates the importance of the charset argument when encoding/decoding.

Chilkat ActiveX Downloads ActiveX for 32-bit and 64-bit Windows

LOCAL s
LOCAL loSb

s = "é é é"

* For versions of Chilkat < 10.0.0, use CreateObject('Chilkat_9_5_0.StringBuilder')
loSb = CreateObject('Chilkat.StringBuilder')

loSb.Append(s)
loSb.EntityDecode()

* The string now contains: "é é é"
? loSb.GetAsString()

* If encoded to hex using the iso-8859-1 charset, 
* each é char is represented in 1 byte.
* Output: E920E920E9
? loSb.GetEncoded("hex","iso-8859-1")

* If encoded to hex using the utf-8 charset, 
* each é char is represented in 2 bytes.
* Output: C3A920C3A920C3A9
? loSb.GetEncoded("hex","utf-8")

* Here's utf-16
* Output: E9002000E9002000E900
? loSb.GetEncoded("hex","utf-16")

* utf-32
* Output: E900000020000000E900000020000000E9000000
? loSb.GetEncoded("hex","utf-32")

RELEASE loSb