4.11 Encodings

The following single-byte encodings are available in Polybios. Hollywood scripts can get an encoding handle by using doc:GetEncoder():

StandardEncoding

The default encoding of PDF

MacRomanEncoding

The standard encoding of macOS

WinAnsiEncoding

The standard encoding of Windows

FontSpecific

Use the built-in encoding of a font

ISO8859-2

Latin Alphabet No.2

ISO8859-3

Latin Alphabet No.3

ISO8859-4

Latin Alphabet No.4

ISO8859-5

Latin Cyrillic Alphabet

ISO8859-6

Latin Arabic Alphabet

ISO8859-7

Latin Greek Alphabet

ISO8859-8

Latin Hebrew Alphabet

ISO8859-9

Latin Alphabet No. 5

ISO8859-10

Latin Alphabet No. 6

ISO8859-11

Thai, TIS 620-2569 character set

ISO8859-13

Latin Alphabet No. 7

ISO8859-14

Latin Alphabet No. 8

ISO8859-15

Latin Alphabet No. 9

ISO8859-16

Latin Alphabet No. 10

CP1250

Microsoft Windows Codepage 1250 (EE)

CP1251

Microsoft Windows Codepage 1251 (Cyrl)

CP1252

Microsoft Windows Codepage 1252 (ANSI)

CP1253

Microsoft Windows Codepage 1253 (Greek)

CP1254

Microsoft Windows Codepage 1254 (Turk)

CP1255

Microsoft Windows Codepage 1255 (Hebr)

CP1256

Microsoft Windows Codepage 1256 (Arab)

CP1257

Microsoft Windows Codepage 1257 (BaltRim)

CP1258

Microsoft Windows Codepage 1258 (Viet)

KOI8-R

Russian Net Character Set

The following multi-byte encodings are available in Polybios:

GB-EUC-H

EUC-CN encoding

GB-EUC-V

Vertical writing version of GB-EUC-H

GBK-EUC-H

Microsoft Code Page 936 (lfCharSet 0x86) GBK encoding

GBK-EUC-V

Vertical writing version of GBK-EUC-H

ETen-B5-H

Microsoft Code Page 950 (lfCharSet 0x88) Big Five character set with ETen extensions

ETen-B5-V

Vertical writing version of ETen-B5-H

90ms-RKSJ-H

Microsoft Code Page 932, JIS X 0208 character

90ms-RKSJ-V

Vertical writing version of 90ms-RKSJ-V

90msp-RKSJ-H

Microsoft Code Page 932, JIS X 0208 character (proportional)

EUC-H

JIS X 0208 character set, EUC-JP encoding

EUC-V

Vertical writing version of EUC-H

KSC-EUC-H

KS X 1001:1992 character set, EUC-KR encoding

KSC-EUC-V

Vertical writing version of KSC-EUC-V

KSCms-UHC-H

Microsoft Code Page 949 (lfCharSet 0x81), KS X 1001:1992 character set plus 8822 additional hangul, Unified Hangul Code (UHC) encoding (proportional)

KSCms-UHC-HW-H

Microsoft Code Page 949 (lfCharSet 0x81), KS X 1001:1992 character set plus 8822 additional hangul, Unified Hangul Code (UHC) encoding (fixed width)

KSCms-UHC-HW-V

Vertical writing version of KSCms-UHC-HW-H

UTF-8

UTF-8 encoding.

A Hollywood script has to invoke one of the following functions before using multi-byte encodings:

doc:UseCNSEncodings()

It makes simplified Chinese encodings (GB-EUC-H, GB-EUC-V, GBK-EUC-H, GBK-EUC-V) become available.

doc:UseCNTEncodings()

Makes traditional Chinese encodings (ETen-B5-H, ETen-B5-V) become available.

doc:UseJPEncodings()

Makes Japanese encodings (90ms-RKSJ-H, 90ms-RKSJ-V, 90msp-RKSJ-H, EUC-H, EUC-V) become available.

doc:UseKREncodings()

Makes Korean encodings (KSC-EUC-H, KSC-EUC-V, KSCms-UHC-H, KSCms-UHC-HW-H, KSCms-UHC-HW-V) become available.

doc:UseUTFEncodings()

Makes UTF-8 encoding become available.