Format Property
The type of encoding to be used.
Syntax
public int getFormat(); public void setFormat(int format);
Enumerated values: public final static int fmtUUEncode = 0; public final static int fmtBase64 = 1; public final static int fmtQP = 2; public final static int fmtURL = 3; public final static int fmtJIS = 4; public final static int fmtYEncode = 5; public final static int fmtMD5Hash = 6; public final static int fmtSHA1Hash = 7; public final static int fmtHex = 8; public final static int fmtHTML = 9; public final static int fmtHMAC = 10; public final static int fmtUTF8 = 11; public final static int fmtUTF7 = 12; public final static int fmtBase32 = 13; public final static int fmtBase64URL = 14;
Remarks
This property contains the type of encoding to be used. The following are the possible values for this property, and the corresponding descriptions:
| fmtUUEncode (0) | The most popular standard. 3 Bytes are encoded into 4 readable characters. If multiple filenames are specified, then the extension ".uue" is used/expected. |
| fmtBase64 (1) | Encoding format of MIME. Much like UUEncode but another subset of printable characters is used. If multiple filenames are specified, then the extension ".b64" is used/expected. |
| fmtQP (2) | Quoted-Printable is another MIME format coding only special characters. Mostly used if the text contains special accented characters. If multiple filenames are specified, then the extension ".q_p" is used/expected. |
| fmtURL (3) | Encoding of non-printable, 8-bit or unsafe characters as defined in RFC 1738. (No multiple filenames can be specified with this encoding.) |
| fmtJIS (4) | Japanese Industrial Standards encoding of Japanese character sets. |
| fmtYEncode (5) | Similar to Base64, but uses 8-bit encoding to reduce the amount of data being sent and received. Designed for binaries on the Usenet or Email. |
| fmtMD5Hash (6) | The Message Digest 5 hashing algorithm produces a 128-bit hash output. |
| fmtSHA1Hash (7) | The Secure Hash Algorithm produces a 128-bit hash output. |
| fmtHex (8) | Creates a hexadecimal string representation of the decoded data. |
| fmtHTML (9) | Creates an HTML-encoded string. |
| fmtHMAC (10) | Creates a Hash-based Message Authentication Code for the given data. To set the key, use HMACKey. To set the hash algorithm to use to create the MAC, use HMACAlgorithm. |
| fmtUTF8 (11) | Convert strings to/from UTF-8 to the current code page (Windows only). |
| fmtUTF7 (12) | Convert strings to/from UTF-7 to the current code page (Windows only). |
| fmtBase32 (13) | Similar to Base64, but uses 32 printable characters. If multiple filenames are specified, then the extension ".b32" is used/expected. |
| fmtBase64URL (14) | Base64 encoding for use within URLs. The "+" character is replaced with "-". The "/" character is replaced with "_". The padding character "=" is omitted. |
Default Value
0