$utfdecode

Returns the result of decoding the provided text from UTF-8.

$utfdecode(text, C)

The parameter C is an 8-bit (0-255) number referencing a GDI charset number for specific code page to unicode resolution.

Available charset numbers

for a list of available charset numbers, see $utfencode.

Actual transition

Behind the scene, $utfdecode does the inverted operation of $utfencode, which is the following:

1. Unicode char code is encoded using $utfencode to form its UTF-8 analogue.
2. Looks up the char code in unicode's charset map to be of what abstract character, e.g. for C the abstract character is LATIN CAPITAL LETTER C.
3. The abstract character is located in the given charset map.
4. The located char code is used to encode the char in the given charset map encoding.

Decoding UTF-8 with code page references is more intricate and, at present, slightly flawed insofar as mIRC will attempt to decode invalid UTF-8.

Examples

$asc($utfdecode($utfencode($chr(915)), 161))

This example will return 195, which is the ANSI char code of the greek capital letter Gamma.

See Also

• $utfencode
• How to display ANSI chars in UTF-8 format