FAT Filename Conversion Plug-ins Overview

The FAT Filename Conversion Plug-ins component contains plug-in converters used by the File Server. Each plug-in converts file names (FAT or FAT32) between Unicode and a Windows code page.

Key concept

Windows code page

A Windows code page is also referred to as a code page. It is a character encoding used by Windows OS. Windows code pages match most of the current encodings. For example, CP1250 (a Windows code page) supports character set of ISO-8859-2.

Libraries (plug-in converters)

The following table lists the plug-in converters used by the File Server, and their respective target scripts. Each converter is identified by the DLL name which is named as [converter name].dll.

Converter Name

Target script

CP 1256

Arabic

CP 1257

Baltic

CP 1250

Central and East European

CP 1252

West European

CP 936

Chinese (Simplified)

CP 54936

Chinese (Simplified) GB18030

CP 950

Chinese (Traditional)

CP 1251

Cyrillic

CP 1253

Greek

CP 1255

Hebrew

CP 932

Japanese

CP 949

Korean

CP 1254

Turkish

CP 1258

Vietnamese

Typical uses