text encodings

FROM : m
DATE : Fri Nov 22 14:21:10 2002

hi there,

we're currently writing a text-conversion plug-in for our app, and are
quite unsure which encoding to choose. :)
we got plaintext to start with and would like to export these texts to
unix-, mac-, windows-, unicode-format. now... these are our options:

----snip----

    NSASCIIStringEncoding = 1,
    NSNEXTSTEPStringEncoding = 2,
    NSJapaneseEUCStringEncoding = 3,
    NSUTF8StringEncoding = 4,
    NSISOLatin1StringEncoding = 5,
    NSSymbolStringEncoding = 6,
    NSNonLossyASCIIStringEncoding = 7,
    NSShiftJISStringEncoding = 8,
    NSISOLatin2StringEncoding = 9,
    NSUnicodeStringEncoding = 10,
    NSWindowsCP1251StringEncoding = 11,
    NSWindowsCP1252StringEncoding = 12,
    NSWindowsCP1253StringEncoding = 13,
    NSWindowsCP1254StringEncoding = 14,
    NSWindowsCP1250StringEncoding = 15,
    NSISO2022JPStringEncoding = 21,
    NSMacOSRomanStringEncoding = 30,
    NSProprietaryStringEncoding = 65536

----snip----

some seem obvious, but some just don't. :)

anybody care to shed some light on this?

or are we heading in a completely wrong direction?

thanx in advance
greetz
mahakk
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