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luaiconv Examples

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Lessica
Lessica
Maintainer of XXTouch Elite

luaiconv is a Lua encoding conversion library that supports conversion between various character encodings. Below are some common encoding conversion examples.

GBK to UTF-8​

local iconv = require("iconv")
local cd = iconv.new("utf-8", "gbk")  -- Create a converter from GBK encoding to UTF-8 encoding
local f = io.open("/var/mobile/1.txt", "rb")
local s = f:read("*a")
f:close()
sys.alert(cd:iconv(s))

UTF-16LE to UTF-8​

local iconv = require("iconv")
local cd = iconv.new("utf-8", "utf-16le")  -- Create a converter from UTF-16LE encoding to UTF-8 encoding
local f = io.open("/var/mobile/1.txt", "rb")
local s = f:read("*a")
f:close()
sys.alert(cd:iconv(s))

UTF-16BE to UTF-8​

local iconv = require("iconv")
local cd = iconv.new("utf-8", "utf-16be")  -- Create a converter from UTF-16BE encoding to UTF-8 encoding
local f = io.open("/var/mobile/1.txt", "rb")
local s = f:read("*a")
f:close()
sys.alert(cd:iconv(s))