PowerBuilder

StringBuilder Encode Charset

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

integer li_rc
string s
oleobject loo_Sb

s = "é é é"

loo_Sb = create oleobject
li_rc = loo_Sb.ConnectToNewObject("Chilkat.StringBuilder")
if li_rc < 0 then
    destroy loo_Sb
    MessageBox("Error","Connecting to COM object failed")
    return
end if

loo_Sb.Append(s)
loo_Sb.EntityDecode()

// The string now contains: "é é é"
Write-Debug loo_Sb.GetAsString()

// If encoded to hex using the iso-8859-1 charset, 
// each é char is represented in 1 byte.
// Output: E920E920E9
Write-Debug loo_Sb.GetEncoded("hex","iso-8859-1")

// If encoded to hex using the utf-8 charset, 
// each é char is represented in 2 bytes.
// Output: C3A920C3A920C3A9
Write-Debug loo_Sb.GetEncoded("hex","utf-8")

// Here's utf-16
// Output: E9002000E9002000E900
Write-Debug loo_Sb.GetEncoded("hex","utf-16")

// utf-32
// Output: E900000020000000E900000020000000E9000000
Write-Debug loo_Sb.GetEncoded("hex","utf-32")


destroy loo_Sb