In computers with different operating systems, the individual characters, letters and digits are represented internally ("coded") in different ways. In addition, it is possible to use different character sets in these various systems. The content of a text file is interpreted differently depending on the character set used and is output accordingly on the screen or at the printer.
Different character sets are of significance when transferring text files, but not when transferring other file formats (binary, transparent, etc.), as openFT does not convert the contents of the file in this event.
Code conversion of text files is performed by openFT.
openFT makes it possible to assign various single-byte character sets (7-bit and 8-bit) as well as multi-byte character sets (Unicode) to text files.