Patent ID: 6708310
Filing Date: 2004-03-16
Classification: G06F,H03M

Abstract:
A computer system, comprising:an operating system; an operating system memory; a code conversion definition text file that is contained within the operating system memory and that is composed of a plurality of operation-based code conversion definition elements, wherein an operation-based code conversion definition element can be a direction conversion definition element, a condition conversion definition element, an operation conversion definition element, or a mapping conversion definition element; and a code-generating operating system utility that is contained within the operating system memory and can be invoked when the text file is received, the code-generating operating system operating to: parse the at least one operation-based code conversion definition element when the code-generating operating system utility is invoked; generate, based on the parsing of the at least one operation-based code conversion definition element, a representation of the text file; store in the operating system the representation of the received text file in a code conversion database for use in subsequent codeset conversions; and a binary file contained in the memory, the binary file specifying rules for converting character data from a first codeset to a second codeset, the binary file having been produced, by the code generating operating system utility, from the code conversion definition text file which is composed of a plurality of operation-based code conversion definition elements.