Encoding Connector

The Encoding connector auto-detects a file’s encoding and converts the file to a specified output encoding.

Key Capabilities

Automatic encoding detection and conversion between multiple character sets
Support for UTF-8, UTF-16, ISO-8859-1, Windows-1252, and Asian character sets
Fallback handling for undetectable encodings with configurable error handling

Connector Configuration

This section contains all of the configurable connector properties.

Settings Tab

Configuration

Settings related to establishing the connection.

Setting	Description
Connector Id	The static, unique identifier for the connector.
Connector Type	Displays the connector name and a description of what it does.
Connector Description	An optional field to provide a free-form description of the connector and its role in the flow.
Input Encoding	The encoding of the input file (the default is Auto-Detect). The available encodings are `UTF-8`, `UTF-16`, `ISO-8859-1`, `Windows-1252`, `GB2312`, `Shift-JIS`, `GBK`, `Big5`, `EUC-JP`, and `TIS-620`.
Auto Detect Fallback	The encoding to use if Auto-Detect fails to detect an encoding (the default is Use Fallback Encoding). The other options are Keep Original and Failure.
Fallback Encoding	The encoding the connector falls back to if Auto-Detect fails to identify the encoding and Auto Detect Fallback is set to Use Fallback Encoding (the default is `UTF-8`). The other options are `UTF-16`, `ISO-8859-1`, `Windows-1252`, `GB2312`, `Shift-JIS`, `GBK`, `Big5`, `EUC-JP`, and `TIS-620`.
Output Encoding	The encoding to apply to the output file (the default is `UTF-8`). The other options are `UTF-16`, `ISO-8859-1`, `Windows-1252`, `GB2312`, `Shift-JIS`, `GBK`, `Big5`, `EUC-JP`, and `TIS-620`.
Local File Scheme	A scheme for assigning filenames to messages that are output by the connector. You can use macros in your filenames dynamically to include information such as identifiers and timestamps. For more information, see Macros.

Advanced Tab

Logging

Other Settings

Setting	Description
Processing Delay	The amount of time (in seconds) by which the processing of files placed in the Transactions tab is delayed. This is a legacy setting. Best practice is to use a File connector to manage local file systems instead of this setting.

Miscellaneous

Automation Tab

Automation Settings

Settings related to the automatic processing of files by the connector.

Setting	Description
Send	Whether messages arriving at the connector are automatically processed.

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​Key Capabilities

​Connector Configuration

​Settings Tab

​Configuration

​Advanced Tab

​Logging

​Other Settings

​Miscellaneous

​Automation Tab

​Automation Settings

​Performance

​Alerts Tab

​SLAs Tab

​Macros

​Examples

Key Capabilities

Connector Configuration

Settings Tab

Configuration

Advanced Tab

Logging

Other Settings

Miscellaneous

Automation Tab

Automation Settings

Performance

Alerts Tab

SLAs Tab

Macros

Examples