Sisulizer's Kaboom - Das Konvertierungswerkzeug
Was ist Sisulizers Kaboom?
Sisulizers Kaboom ist ein Konvertierungswerkzeug für Datei und
Zwischenablagedaten im Textformat. Es unterstützt Sie bei Ihren
täglichen Aufgaben bei der Entwicklung und Lokalisierung. Und
das Beste: Sie können es nicht nur kostenlos herunter
laden, sondern auch kostenlos benutzen.
- Der Dateiumwandlungsteil von Kaboom unterstützt ANSI, UNICODE
und DBCS Code Pages vollständig.
- Der Zwischenablage Konverter biete volle Unterstützung für
Unicode.
- Das Eingabefeld des Zwischenablage-Konverters interpretiert
Eingaben im ANSI Code Page (8-Bit) Ihrer Windows Installation.
Kaboom ist eine Classic Visual Basic Anwendung mit mehrsprachiger
Zeichenkettenressource (neudeutsch: String Resource). In der aktuellen
Version enthält sie Englisch und Deutsch. Ihr Betriebssystem wählt
die passende Sprache für Ihr System beim Programmstart.
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Setup-EXE
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Systemanforderungen
Sisulizer's Kaboom ein Betriebssystem mit voller UNICODE Unterstützung,
wie Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows 2003 oder besser.
Onlinehandbuch
After the installation Kaboom is ready to use. You can start
it from the Windows Start menu. After the start Kaboom shows its
main menu with three entries.
- File Converter. This opens the file converter part of Kaboom.
- Clipboard Converter. This opens the clipboard converter part
of Kaboom.
- Online Manual. This menu entry loads this page.
The red x-Button in the title bar of Kaboom is used to close
the application.
Dateiumwandlung
The file converter allows to convert text files stored in one
code page into another. It is e.g. possible to convert a file
written on a Japanese computer using shift-jis into an UNICODE
file. Kaboom checks which conversions are available on your computer
and offers these for your usage.
Eine Datei konvertieren
Converting a file with Kaboom is simple. Just follow these steps:
- Select the text file in the foreign code page with the three-dots
button "...". Kaboom opens a file select dialog box
helping you to find the file to convert.
- If your file is marked with some BOM (Byte-Order-Mark) then
Kaboom has allready selected the correct code page for you.
Most files you will convert will not have a BOM. Therefore you
must select the correct code page with the "Code page group"
and "Code page" combo boxes for the source file. The
sorting of the code pages should help you to find the correct
one.
- In the preview you can see right away if your selection of
the code page is correct.
- Sometimes files have additional specialties. E.g. the line
feed encoding of UNIX and Macintosh files is different. "Additional
Filter" take care of such. BASE64 encoding is sometimes
used in e-mails.
- Kaboom creates some filename for the target file for you.
You can use the three-dots "..." button if you want
to choose a different name for "Target Filename".
- In the "Code page group" and "Code page"
combo boxes you can select the code page of the target file.
- If the target code page is UTF-7, UTF-8, UTF-16-LE or UTF-16-BE
then the target file can have a BOM (Byte-Order-Mark). The checkbox
allows you to write a BOM or not.
- The "Convert" button starts the conversation.
Attention: Not all conversions make sense! If
you e.g. convert a 8-Bit file written with a Cyrillic code page
like KOI8 into a 8-Bit file for code page 1252 (Windows Western)
then information will become lost. But you can convert it into
a Cyrillic file for the Macintosh (Code page 10007) or into an
UNICODE format like UTF-7, UTF-8, or UTF-16. Especially the UNICODE
formats are always a good choice because they can hold up to 65535
different characters while ANSI files can only have 256 different
characters.
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What is a code page and why
is it needed?
Code pages are necessary because ANSI files only have 8 bits to display a character (char).
This means there are only 256 possible characters--not nearly enough for all languages
of the world.
The American charset needs only 128 different chars = 7-bit. Because 7-bit
was a bit inefficient for computers, this led to the need for another
bit; thus, currently, another 128 possibilities are available to display chars.
On MS-DOS systems, some of these bits have been used for drawing boxes and lines. With
Windows, these boxes and lines have been removed from the charsets and
more foreign chars have been added. For the most Western languages
like English, French, German, and others, these additional chars work efficiently. For example, the German charset
needs only seven extra chars to the US charset - leaving enough space
for special chars from Spain, Norway, and so forth.
However, for certain charsets, such as Cyrillic charsets, the space was not big enough. Codepages
fill that gap. A code page in Windows is nothing more than
information, so that the upper 128 chars use some other characters. For example, instead
of the German umlaut Ü, a Cyrillic Ш appears. both of these items have
the ANSI value 205. Thus, if the Windows codepage 1252 is selected, a Ü
appears, while with the Russian Windows codepage 1251 Ш (sha) is displayed.
If code pages are used, the system cannot possibly show Ü and Ш on the same
display. This is only possible if UNICODE is used. For example, this page uses
UNICODE (UTF-8) to display both chars.
While this solves the problem for most of the languages, the code page technique
does not help languages with more than 128 special characters, such as
Japanese, Korean and Chinese. For these languages, DBCS is available.
While the lower 128 characters are still the same as in US code pages, the upper
128 are specially encoded. In this system, one character of the upper 128 chars starts
a multi-byte sequence. This means that one character is stored in one or many
chars. For example, in Japanese shift-jis, one character can use up to five bytes.
Thus, if a person writes a text file on her or his computer and does not
use UNICODE to save it, the current code page is used. If this file
is given to someone with some other current codepage, the file is not displayed
correctly. So, if you are in Western Europe or the USA, and you get a text file
from someone in Greece, Turkey, China, or Japan, the chances are high that
the file is useless to you. Kaboom can fix these problems. Simply convert
the file into UNICODE and print, edit, or use the file in any way--without losing
information. If you edit the file and you want to return it with your changes,
simply convert the file back into the code page that the receiver needs. Kaboom makes the entire process easy and quick.
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What is a BOM?
BOM is an acronym for byte-order-mark. BOM describes the order in which
a sequence of bytes is stored in computer memory. The acronym is stored
at the beginning of a text file to tell the reading application the order
in which the bytes are organized, as big-endian or little-endian. BOM also
indicates if a character is stored in 16- or 32-bit
UNICODE. And, the BOM is also used to mark UFT-7 and UTF-8 files. These
files are 8-bit files that use a code to store 16-bit characters. Therefore,
the name BOM for these kinds of files is a bit misleading. While it is
convenient to know the file
format, a BOM can be used to mark the format inside the file.
If a file is read by an application not aware of BOMs, the system shows
the characters used to sign the file as data. In this case, you can use
Kaboom to
read a file with a BOM and convert the file into a file without a BOM.
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What is little-endian and big-endian?
There are two types of byte-ordering: big- and little-endian. Intel processors
use the little-endian order; this means the more significant digits
in a number are on the right side. If we write a number like 4711, the
most significant digit is 4 (= 4.000) and is on the left side. A BOM (Byte
Order Marker) in text files indicates to the application the direction
to read the numbers.
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Zwischenablage
The clipboard converter knows the following conversions and filters.
Daten aus der Zwischenablage umwandeln
Converting a text with Kaboom is simple. Just follow these steps:
- Select the text you want to convert in some other application,
e.g. Windows Notepad, and use the shortcut ctrl+c to copy it
into your Windows clipboard.
- Switch to Kaboom's Clipboard converter and select from the
"Source" combo box one of the clipboard sources.
- Select in the "Filter group" and "Filter"
combo boxes the conversion you want to perform
- Press the "Convert" button.
- The converted text is now shown in the "Target"
area. If you have selected "Clipboard" in the "Target"
combo box, the result is already copied to the clipboard. If
you have selected "Preview" you can use the "Copy"
button to transfer the result to the clipboard. Copying to the
clipboard will also change the content of the "Source"
area.
- Select the application where you want to paste the text into,
e.g. Notepad.exe. You can e.g. use the shortcut ctrl+v to past
the converted text into notepad.
If you want to manually enter text into Kaboom you have to select
"Input Field (ANSI)" in the "Source" combo
box. Kaboom will now convert what you type into the text field
if you press the "Convert" button. If you want to add
text to already existing text in the source text field you should
use the standard Windows shortcut for the clipboard like ctrl+v.
You can only use your current code page in the input field. If
you want to use UNICODE please use select one of the clipboard
types from the "Source" combo box.
Verfügbare Filter in Kaboom
Zeichenfilter
Clean Up String
Replaces white chars from a string with underline chars _.
Lower Case
Changes all upper chars to lower chars
Make Caps
This makes the first char of every word in the string upper case.
Remove White Chars
"Remove White Chars" removes all punctuation and other
chars from the input. In Kaboom White Chars are the following
chars: <Blank><Tab><CR><LF>,;:./(){}[]<>+-~#*&%$§!=\'"
Tabs to Blanks
Changes Tab chars into Blank chars.
Upper Case
Changes all lower chars to upper chars
Prüfsummen
CRC16
The filter calculates the CRC16 checksum for the string in the
source field.
CRC32
The filter calculates the CRC32 checksum for the string in the
source field.
Internet Checksum
The filter calculates a so called Internet checksum for the string
in the source field.
Code Page Filter
Char to OEM
Converts a string from an ANSI char set into a char set used
in a DOS session.
Code page<current ANSI code page> to UTF-7
Converts a text using the current ANSI code page into UTF-7.
The target field will show the escape chars used in UTF-7 instead
of interpreting them.
Code page<current ANSI code page> to UTF-8
Converts a text using the current ANSI code page into UTF-8.
The target field will show the escape chars used in UTF-8 instead
of interpreting them.
OEM to Char
Converts a string from the char set used in a DOS session into
ANSI char set.
UTF-7 to Code page<current ANSI code page>
Converts a text using UTF-7 escaped into the current ANSI code
page. The source field will show the escape chars used in UTF-7
instead of interpreting them.
UTF-8 to Code page<current ANSI code page>
Converts a text using UTF-8 escaped into the current ANSI code
page. The source field will show the escape chars used in UTF-8
instead of interpreting them.
Code Page finden
These group does not contain classic filters. The functions here
are service functions to find a code page for a number and vice
versa.
Code page Name from Code page Number
This functions finds the code page number used by Windows for
some code page name, e.g. "shift_jis" or "shift-jis"
will result in 932. For some code pages Kaboom knows more than
one name
Code page Number from Code page Name
This functions finds the code page name used by Windows for some
code page number, e.g. 932 will result in "shift_jis".
While there can be more than one name for one code page number
Kaboom will return the name used in the headers of Mime or HTML-files
Dateinamen
This group is also not a classic filter. Nevertheless the functions
can be sometimes handy in your daily (development) work.
Calc full filename
This filter can convert a filename like
c:\windows\system32\..\..\test\test.dat
into
c:\test\test.dat.
Long Filename to Short
Modern Windows uses long filenames. But sometimes the short 8.3
filename representations is needed. This function finds the short
filename.
Path with Drive to UNC
This filter finds the UNC representation of a network path using
a drive letter.
Short Filename to Long
Modern Windows uses long filenames. Sometimes the short 8.3 filename
is given. This function finds the long filename.
Hex Decoder
Hex-Stream
This filter changes a string with hexadecimal numbers into characters.
Hex Encoder
Hex-Dump
This filter changes the character char values into their hexadecimal
representation or vice versa. The output is formatted in columns
and rows so a human can easily read them. There is no decoder
for this format.
Hex-Stream
This filter changes the character char values into their hexadecimal
representation.
Internet Decoder
International Domain Names (IDNA/PunyCode)
There is a new standard for using special chars in URLs called
IDNA. If you want to register a domain name having special chars,
like Japanese, Spanish or French accents or German umlauts. You
can use this filter to remove the computer coding and see the
text in human text. Please be aware that this part of Kaboom is
ANSI based, you some IDNA from China will not render correctly
on some Western computer and vice versa.
Internet Encoder
International Domain Names (IDNA/PunyCode)
There is a new standard for using special chars in URLs called
IDNA. If you want to register a domain name having special chars,
like Japanese, Spanish or French accents or German umlauts you
can use this filter to get the actual text to register. You can
use only special chars your actual system allows to display in
your current ANSI char set.
Mail Data Base64
Base64 encryption is sometimes used in the body of E-Mails.
Mail Data Quoted Printable
Quoted printable is found in the body part of E-Mails. QP encodes
special chars in way that it can be transported as 7-Bit ANSI.
Mail Header Quoted Binary (RFC1522)
Binary (Base64) encoding is found in the header part of E-Mails.
QP encodes special chars in way that it can be transported as
7-Bit ANSI.
Mail Header Quoted Printable (RFC1522)
Quoted printable encoding is found in the header part of E-Mails.
QP encodes special chars in way that it can be transported as
7-Bit ANSI.
URL
A URL in the browser encrypts special chars e.g. <Blanks>
become %20. Some spammers try to use this to fake you. If you
see URL encoded this way in your E-Mail you will not know where
it links to. Kaboom can decrypt this for you.
Internet Encoder
AntiHarvest (complete NCR)
AntiHarvest changes every char in the input field into Numeric
Character Reference (NCR). NCR is used in HTML to describe special
characters like umlauts, accented chars or signs like < >
& and so on. Normally only the special chars are encrypted
as NCR. The AntiHarvest filter encrypts all chars of the string.
The result can be used for links to E-Mail Addresses on web sites.
This helps to protect you E-Mail Address from E-Mail Harvester
visiting your web site to grab E-Mail addresses. The grabbed addresses
will be used to send spam to your postbox.
International Domain Names (IDNA/PunyCode)
There is a new standard for using special chars in URL's called
IDNA. If you want to register a domain name having special chars,
like Japanese, Spanish or French accents or German umlauts you
can use this filter to get the actual text to register. You can
use only special chars your actual system allows to display in
your current ANSI char set.
Mail Data Base64
Base64 encryption is sometimes used in the body of E-Mails.
Mail Data Quoted Printable
Quoted printable is found in the body part of E-Mails. QP encodes
special chars in way that it can be transported as 7-Bit ANSI.
Mail Header Quoted Binary (RFC1522)
Binary (Base64) encoding is found in the header part of E-Mails.
QP encodes special chars in way that it can be transported as
7-Bit ANSI.
Mail Header Quoted Printable (RFC1522)
Quoted printable encoding is found in the header part of E-Mails.
QP encodes special chars in way that it can be transported as
7-Bit ANSI.
Numeric Character Reference (NCR)
Changes special chars in the input into their Numeric Character
Reference (NCR). NCR is used in HTML to describe special characters
like umlauts, accented chars or signs like < > & and
so on.
URL
A URL in the browser encrypts special chars e.g. <Blanks>
become %20. Some spammers try to use this to fake you. If you
see URL encoded this way in your E-Mail you will not know where
it links to. Kaboom can create this format for you.
Zeilenvorschübe
CR to CRLF / CRLF to CR / CRLF to LF / LF to CRLF
Different operation systems have different new line definition.
While Windows used CRLF (Carriage Return plus Line Feed) UNIX
only uses CR. Sometimes you get UNIX document where everything
seems to be printed in one line in Windows Notepad. These filters
will solve the problem.
CRLF to <BR>
This filter changes every new line into a HTML <br>-tag.
CRLF to Blanks
This filter changes every new line into a single blank char ("
").
Andere Filter
RLE Encode/Decode
This is a simple running length encoding. If a string contains
the same chars in a row this encoding will shrink the string.
ROT13
Encrypts a string in a way that a human can not read it. If you
use the function twice the effect is reversed.
Soundex
This is not a classical filter. Soundex calculates the "Soundex"
value of a text. Text with the same Soundex value sound similar
if spoken.
Strip Tags from HTML
Removes Tags from HTML and returns the plain text information.
Get HTML
If Kaboom finds HTML Format in the clipboard it shows the complete
data on the clipboard. This contains some header information and
sourounding HTML data. Kaboom can use this header information
to extract the HTML from this data.
Get HTML-Fragment
If Kaboom finds HTML Format in the clipboard it shows the complete
data on the clipboard. This contains some header information and
sourounding HTML data. Kaboom can use this header information
to extract the HTML fragment from this data.
Copy
Does nothing else than copying the source to the target. This
is usefull if HTML format is found on the clipboard and you want
to get it including all headers. Most applications remove the
headers while pasting the data. (See also Get HTML and Get HTML-Fragment)
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