This repository contains rust library for encoding/decoding string with local charset. It usefull for work with ANSI strings on Windows.

Unfortunately Windows widly use 8-bit character encoding instead UTF-8. This causes a lot of pain.

For example, in Russian version:

• CP-1251 (ANSI codepage) used for 8-bit files;
• CP-866 (OEM codepage) used for console output.

To convert between 8-bit and Unicode used Windows have function: MultiByteToWideChar and WideCharToMultiByte.

This library provide simple function to convert between 8-bit and Unicode characters on Windows.

UTF-8 used as 8-bit codepage for non-Windows system.

Rustdoc: https://bozaro.github.io/local-encoding-rs/local-encoding/

Put this in your Cargo.toml:

[dependencies]
local-encoding = "*"

For example:

extern crate local_encoding;

fn main()
{
	println!("Unicode string: {}", local_encoding::ansi_to_string(b"ANSI string").unwrap());
}