euc-input-file

function

Library: Character encodings, international (OMEFIO)
Include: omefio.xin

Declaration
define external string string source function euc-input-file
                value string filename
  exceptions-to value io-exception exceptions-to optional



Purpose

This external string source function reads the file named by the "filename" argument and returns the text of that file converted from an EUC encoding to a UTF-8 encoding. The file is in EUC, but the program will see the UTF-8 conversion.

Arguments:

The file format is interpreted according to the Japanese Industry Standards JIS X 0201, JIS X 0208, and JIS X 0212, with the addition of EUC encoding of the single bytes and of the byte pairs. No escape sequences are used by EUC.

Example:

  ; Setting a local buffer to the contents of a file which contains EUC-encoded
  ; Japanese text.
  
  set my-buffer to euc-input-file "myfile.euc"