Method parse_param_pike_charset()

Method parse_param_pike_charset

protected type parse_param_pike_charset(string sym, string arg)

Description

Parse the argument for the #embed parameters pike::charset() and/or __pike__::__charset__().

This #embed parameter is used to specify the character encoding for the embedded file. If this is not specified, the default encoding (ie iso-8859-1) will be used.

Some commonly used charsets here are:

• UCS-2

  16-bit quantities in big-endian byte order.

• UCS-2le

  16-bit quantities in little-endian byte order.

• UCS-4

  32-bit quantities in big-endian byte order.

• UCS-4be

  32-bit quantities in little-endian byte order.

• UTF-8

  Text in UTF-8.

• UTF-16

  Text in UTF-16.

• UTF-16le

  Text in UTF-16le.

See also

#embed