FAT Filename Conversion Plug-ins Overview

The FAT Filename Conversion Plug-ins component contains plug-in converters used by the File Server. Each plug-in converts file names (FAT or FAT32) between Unicode and a Windows code page.

Key concept

Windows code page

A Windows code page is also referred to as a code page. It is a character encoding used by Windows OS. Windows code pages match most of the current encodings. For example, CP1250 (a Windows code page) supports character set of ISO-8859-2.

Libraries (plug-in converters)

The following table lists the plug-in converters used by the File Server, and their respective target scripts. Each converter is identified by the DLL name which is named as [converter name].dll.

Converter Name	Target script
CP 1256	Arabic
CP 1257	Baltic
CP 1250	Central and East European
CP 1252	West European
CP 936	Chinese (Simplified)
CP 950	Chinese (Traditional)
CP 1251	Cyrillic
CP 1253	Greek
CP 1255	Hebrew
CP 932	Japanese
CP 949	Korean
CP 1254	Turkish
CP 1258	Vietnamese

Typical uses

Device creators can create FAT Filename Conversion plug-ins to support character conversion for additional target scripts.
Application developers can have the File Server dynamically load and call a FAT Filename Conversion plug-in to convert file names between Unicode and a Windows code page.