Class: BIG5EncodedString

• Inheritance
• Description
• 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: 1.13 date: 2021/01/20 14:32:18

user: cg

file: BIG5EncodedString.st directory: libbasic2

module: stx stc-classLibrary: libbasic2

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    this class will vanish - its functionality has been replaced
    by the UnicodeString classes.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

copyright
COPYRIGHT (c) 1995 by Claus Gittinger
             All Rights Reserved

This software is furnished under a license and may be used
only in accordance with the terms of that license and with the
inclusion of the above copyright notice.   This software may not
be provided or otherwise made available to, or used by, any
other person.  No title to or ownership of the software is
hereby transferred.

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.