Extensions to Character Encoding Conversion

Magic

3.0.0

In previous versions, characters not defined in the JIS-1 and JIS-2 standards were handled as external characters, and registering these characters to the external character table took some time. In addition, conversion of commonly used characters such as "○" or "(株)" within Unicode encodings (such as from UTF-8 to UTF-16 and vice versa) required the use of an external character table to complete the encoding conversion.

From DataMagic Ver.3 onward, if any of the following encodings is specified as the kanji character encoding for data processing information, you can choose whether to convert characters that are not defined in the JIS-1 or JIS-2 standards:

  • Shift JIS

  • IBM kanji

  • UTF-8

  • UTF-16

You can now select whether to convert characters other than those defined in the JIS-1 and JIS-2 standards.Due to this enhancement, you no longer need to register commonly used characters such as "○" or " (株)" to an external character table.