Re: IBM 437 encoded String to UTF-16 Wide_String

[gautier_niouzes@hotmail.com]

Le mercredi 28 novembre 2012 09:34:53 UTC+1, briot.e...@gmail.com a écrit :
> XML/Ada also has a few conversion packages, but not IBM 437.
> 
> I think the most convenient here would be to create a small binding to the iconv library. I believe it exists on most systems, although with slightly different interfaces. And it supports a huge number of encodings.
> 
> You basically need to bind three functions ("open", "iconv" and "close")

Thanks for that, it could be useful in another project.
In this case (Zip archives) there are two entry name encodings: UTF-8 and IBM 437. Now that latter is covered too, with a simple constant array(Character) of Wide_Character. No need to look further...
G.