Tis2Utf8 encoding converter

The standard for Thai encoding character is TIS-620. This standard was defined by Thai Industrial Standard Institute. In my opinion, TIS-620 is convenient when inputing Thai characters from keyboard because its encoding is 8-bit encoding. To display TIS-620 document, conflict with ISO-8859-X (Latin) occurs. Consider a situation when you want to put Latin characters and Thai characters in the same file using TIS-620 encoding, it is impossible. To make this possible, you should use UTF-8 encoding or other alternative encodings such as UTF-7, UTF-16, etc.

This service will convert plain text with TIS-620 encoding to UTF-8 encoding. The UTF-8 encoding is a way to encode unicode characters. This encoding is considered to be suitable when you work on multi-lingual document. Many browsers are supporting this encoding. For Netscape Communicator example, you can choose UTF-8 encoding from menu "view | encoding | Unicode(UTF-8)".

Viewing UTF-8 file from browser

I use IE5 to view UTF-8 file that has Thai language inside. You may need Thai fonts (unicode) which can download freely from Microsoft site. For general file, I think MS Word can read and write this encoding. I didn't try it yet. If you did it, please tell me too. If someone knows tool to convert Japanese encoding to utf8, please tell me too.

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Source

Program was written in Perl module style, so it can be easily reuse. I plan to make Thai module for perl and this will be one of module's method.

Acknowledgment

Source code was discussed in tis620-cp@thai.com. Thank you to members of tis620-cp who gave valuable comments.

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Return as html plain-text

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