Where I work, we needed to convert a long list of character sets all mixed together using ISO2022 escape codes, with a few custom quirks. It was easy to write our own transcoder that dealt with errors properly. The character sets themselves are all available in tables online. Scanned documents are filed as part of the International Registry of Character Sets, and the Unicode databases give ready-made machine readable conversion tables. I know big5 is one of the ones cross-referenced in the Unicode book.

So my advice is get the tables for the charsets you need. They must exist somewhere, even if you need two "hops" to do it.

—John

In reply to Re: Unicode & charset conversions - how? by John M. Dlugosz
in thread Unicode & charset conversions - how? by roundboy

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