Editing Character encoding (section)

== Transcoding ==
As a result of having many character encoding methods in use (and the need for backward compatibility with archived data), many computer programs have been developed to translate data between character encoding schemes, a process known as [[transcoding]]. Some of these are cited below.

[[Cross-platform]]:
* [[Web browser]]s – most modern web browsers feature automatic [[character encoding detection]]. On Firefox 3, for example, see the View/Character Encoding submenu.
* [[iconv]] – a program and standardized API to convert encodings
* [[luit]] – a program that converts encoding of input and output to programs running interactively
* [[International Components for Unicode]] – A set of C and Java libraries to perform charset conversion. uconv can be used from ICU4C.

[[Microsoft Windows|Windows]]:
* Encoding.Convert – .NET API<ref>{{cite web|url=https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/api/system.text.encoding.convert?redirectedfrom=MSDN&view=net-6.0#overloads|work=Microsoft .NET Framework Class Library|title=Encoding.Convert Method}}</ref>
* MultiByteToWideChar/WideCharToMultiByte – to convert from ANSI to Unicode & Unicode to ANSI<ref>{{cite web|url=https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/api/stringapiset/nf-stringapiset-multibytetowidechar|title=MultiByteToWideChar function (stringapiset.h)|website=Microsoft Docs|date=13 October 2021 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/api/stringapiset/nf-stringapiset-widechartomultibyte|title=WideCharToMultiByte function (stringapiset.h)|website=Microsoft Docs|date=9 August 2022 }}</ref>