Class: BIG5EncodedString

• Inheritance
• Description
• Related information
• Class protocol
  • code tables
  • initialization
• Instance protocol
  • queries

Inheritance:

   Object
   |
   +--Collection
      |
      +--SequenceableCollection
         |
         +--ArrayedCollection
            |
            +--UninterpretedBytes
               |
               +--CharacterArray
                  |
                  +--TwoByteString
                     |
                     +--BIG5EncodedString

Package:

stx:libbasic2

Category:

Collections-Text

Version:

rev: 1.12 date: 2016/10/13 22:09:25

user: cg

file: BIG5EncodedString.st directory: libbasic2

module: stx stc-classLibrary: libbasic2

Author:

Claus Gittinger

Description:

OBSOLETE
    this class will vanish - its functionality has been replaced
    by the UnicodeString classes.

BIG5EncodedString represents 16bit strings encoded in BIG-5.
BIG-5 is a popular hanzi code used in Taiwan.

Related information:

    Unicode16String
    GBEncodedString
    JISEncodedString
    TwoByteString
    String
    CharacterArray
    StringCollection

Class protocol:

 romanTable

return a table to decode from roman ascii to 16 bit BIG5.
This is experimental - possibly unfinished or incorrect

 initialize

initialize the class - private

usage example(s):

BIG5EncodedString initialize

Instance protocol:

 encoding

return the strings encoding as a symbol.
Here, the constant symbol #big5 is returned.