Patent ID: 8704687

Claim:
A method for code set conversion, the method comprising: registering a request to convert an encoded character string from a first code set to a second code set; identifying a code set converter (CSC) which, when executed, converts the encoded character string from the first code set to the second code set; determining whether a most recently used CSC is the identified CSC; in response to determining that the most recently used CSC is not the identified CSC, searching for the identified CSC in a user-preferred CSC pool including a subset of locally stored CSCs each corresponding to a respective preference index; and in response to determining that the identified CSC is located within the user-preferred CSC pool: loading the identified CSC; initiating the identified CSC that converts the encoded character string from the first code set to the second code set; modifying usage data for the identified CSC; and ordering the user-preferred CSC pool based on a preference index for each CSC stored in the user-preferred CSC pool.