Class DtazvConvert

Collection of static character set and data type conversion utility method.

Inheritance

System.Object

DtazvConvert

Inherited Members

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Namespace: Subsembly.Dtazv

Assembly: Subsembly.Sepa.dll

Syntax

public static class DtazvConvert

Methods

FromDta(Byte)

Convert a byte from a DTAUS file to its corresponding character.

Declaration

public static char FromDta(byte b)

Parameters

Type	Name	Description
System.Byte	b	The DTAUS byte to be converted.

Returns

Type	Description
System.Char	The Unicode character.

Remarks

Basically this method does nothing but convert the DTAUS0 or DTAUS1 encoded german umlaut characters to Unicode representations. All other bytes are returned as is.

FromDta(String)

Converts a given DTAUS encoded string into a Unicode string representation.

Declaration

public static string FromDta(string s)

Parameters

Type	Name	Description
System.String	s	String with characters in DTAUS0 or DTAUS1 encoding. If null, then null will be returned.

Returns

Type	Description
System.String	Unicode string.

Remarks

Basically this method does nothing but convert the DTAUS0 or DTAUS1 encoded german umlaut characters to Unicode representations. All other characters are copied as is.

IsDta(Char)

Tests whether the given character is an allowed DTAUS0 character.

Declaration

public static bool IsDta(char ch)

Parameters

Type	Name	Description
System.Char	ch

Returns

Type	Description
System.Boolean

IsDta(String)

Tests whether the given string contains only allowed DTAUS0 characters.

Declaration

public static bool IsDta(string s)

Parameters

Type	Name	Description
System.String	s	The string to test. If this is null, then true is returned.

Returns

Type	Description
System.Boolean

ToDta(String, Boolean)

Converts a given unicode string into a DTAUS0 encoded string representation.

Declaration

public static string ToDta(string s, bool fWithUmlaut)

Parameters

Type	Name	Description
System.String	s	Unicode string to be converted to DTAUS0. If null, then null will be returned.
System.Boolean	fWithUmlaut	If true, then the german Umlaut characters are converted just as described. If false, then the german Umlaut characters are converted as 'A', 'O', 'U', and 'S' respectively.

Returns

Type	Description
System.String	DTAUS encoded string.

Remarks

The conversion will convert all lower case characters into upper case characters. All nonprinting character codes are converted to space characters. All foreign umlaut characters are converted into their non-umlaut base characters. The german umlaut characters 'AE', 'OE', 'UE', and 'sz' are converted to their DTAUS0 replacements '[', '', ']', and '~'. Any other symbol characters, or characters beyond '\xFF' are converted to single '.' characters.