file_streams/text_encoding

The encodings available for reading and writing text with a file stream.

Types

Endianness

Endianness specifier used by the Utf16 and Utf32 text encodings.

pub type Endianness {
  Big
  Little
}

Constructors

```
Big
```
Big endian. This is much less common than little endian.
```
Little
```
Little endian. This is much more common than big endian.

TextEncoding

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Text encoding for a file stream. The default encoding is Unicode (UTF-8).

Text read from a file stream using file_stream.read_chars() and file_stream.read_line() will be automatically converted from the specified encoding to a String. Similarly, text written to a file stream using file_stream.write_chars() will be converted to the specified encoding before being written to a file stream.

pub type TextEncoding {
  Unicode
  Latin1
  Utf16(endianness: Endianness)
  Utf32(endianness: Endianness)
}

Constructors

```
Unicode
```
The Unicode UTF-8 text encoding. This is the default encoding.
```
Latin1
```
The ISO 8859-1 (Latin-1) text encoding.

When using this encoding, file_stream.write_chars() can only write Unicode codepoints up to U+00FF.
```
Utf16(endianness: Endianness)
```
The Unicode UTF-16 text encoding, with the specified byte ordering.
```
Utf32(endianness: Endianness)
```
The Unicode UTF-32 text encoding, with the specified byte ordering.