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Codecs library#

Importing#

|#| 'stdcodecs.nest' = cc

Functions#

@cp_is_valid#

Synopsis:

[cp: Int|Byte] @cp_is_valid -> Bool

Returns:

true if cp is a valid Unicode code point and false otherwise.

@from_cp#

Synopsis:

[cp: Int|Byte] @from_cp -> Str

Returns:

A new string containing the character associated with the given code point. If cp is not valid (can be checked with cp_is_valid) the function throws an error.

@to_cp#

Synopsis:

[char: Str] @to_cp -> Int

Returns:

The code point associated with the character in char. If char does not contain only one character an error is thrown.

Constants#

ASCII#

ASCII (a.k.a. US-ASCII) encoding name.

UTF_8#

UTF-8 encoding name.

EXT_UTF_8#

extUTF-8 encoding name. This encoding is Nest-specific and is UTF-8 that accepts unpaired surrogates.

UTF_16#

UTF-16 encoding name.

UTF_16LE#

UTF-16LE encoding name.

UTF_16BE#

UTF-16BE encoding name.

EXT_UTF_16#

extUTF-16 encoding name. This encoding is Nest-specific and is UTF-16 that accepts unpaired surrogates. The only exception is the last character that must not be a high surrogate.

EXT_UTF_16LE#

extUTF-16LE encoding name. Little endian version of extUTF-16..

EXT_UTF_16BE#

extUTF-16BE encoding name. Big endian version of extUTF-16..

UTF_32#

UTF-32 encoding name.

UTF_32LE#

UTF-32LE encoding name.

UTF_32BE#

UTF-32BE encoding name.

CP1250#

CP1250 (a.k.a. Windows-1250) encoding name.

CP1251#

CP1251 (a.k.a. Windows-1251) encoding name.

CP1252#

CP1252 (a.k.a. Windows-1252) encoding name.

CP1253#

CP1253 (a.k.a. Windows-1253) encoding name.

CP1254#

CP1254 (a.k.a. Windows-1254) encoding name.

CP1255#

CP1255 (a.k.a. Windows-1255) encoding name.

CP1256#

CP1256 (a.k.a. Windows-1256) encoding name.

CP1257#

CP1257 (a.k.a. Windows-1257) encoding name.

CP1258#

CP1258 (a.k.a. Windows-1258) encoding name.

LATIN_1#

Latin-1 (a.k.a. ISO/IEC 8859-1) encoding name.

ISO_8859_1#

ISO/IEC 8859-1 (a.k.a. latin-1) encoding name. This is the same as LATIN_1.