basis/io/encodings/8-bit/8-bit-docs.factor

   1 ! Copyright (C) 2008 Daniel Ehrenberg
   2 ! See http://factorcode.org/license.txt for BSD license.
   3 USING: help.syntax help.markup io.encodings.8-bit.private
   4 strings ;
   5 IN: io.encodings.8-bit
   6
   7 ARTICLE: "io.encodings.8-bit" "Legacy 8-bit encodings"
   8 "Many encodings are a simple mapping of bytes onto characters. The " { $vocab-link "io.encodings.8-bit" } " vocabulary implements these generically using existing resource files. These encodings should be used with extreme caution, as fully general Unicode encodings like UTF-8 are nearly always more appropriate. The following 8-bit encodings are available:"
   9 { $list
  10     { $vocab-link "io.encodings.8-bit.ebcdic" }
  11     { $vocab-link "io.encodings.8-bit.latin1" }
  12     { $vocab-link "io.encodings.8-bit.latin2" }
  13     { $vocab-link "io.encodings.8-bit.latin3" }
  14     { $vocab-link "io.encodings.8-bit.latin4" }
  15     { $vocab-link "io.encodings.8-bit.cyrillic" }
  16     { $vocab-link "io.encodings.8-bit.arabic" }
  17     { $vocab-link "io.encodings.8-bit.greek" }
  18     { $vocab-link "io.encodings.8-bit.hebrew" }
  19     { $vocab-link "io.encodings.8-bit.latin5" }
  20     { $vocab-link "io.encodings.8-bit.latin6" }
  21     { $vocab-link "io.encodings.8-bit.thai" }
  22     { $vocab-link "io.encodings.8-bit.latin7" }
  23     { $vocab-link "io.encodings.8-bit.latin8" }
  24     { $vocab-link "io.encodings.8-bit.latin9" }
  25     { $vocab-link "io.encodings.8-bit.koi8-r" }
  26     { $vocab-link "io.encodings.8-bit.mac-roman" }
  27     { $vocab-link "io.encodings.8-bit.windows-1250" }
  28     { $vocab-link "io.encodings.8-bit.windows-1251" }
  29     { $vocab-link "io.encodings.8-bit.windows-1252" }
  30     { $vocab-link "io.encodings.8-bit.windows-1253" }
  31     { $vocab-link "io.encodings.8-bit.windows-1254" }
  32     { $vocab-link "io.encodings.8-bit.windows-1255" }
  33     { $vocab-link "io.encodings.8-bit.windows-1256" }
  34     { $vocab-link "io.encodings.8-bit.windows-1257" }
  35     { $vocab-link "io.encodings.8-bit.windows-1258" }
  36 } ;
  37
  38 ABOUT: "io.encodings.8-bit"