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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.
SettingDescription
Connector IdThe static, unique identifier for the connector.
Connector TypeDisplays the connector name and a description of what it does.
Connector DescriptionAn optional field to provide a free-form description of the connector and its role in the flow.
Input EncodingThe 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 FallbackThe 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 EncodingThe 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 EncodingThe 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 SchemeA 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

SettingDescription
Processing DelayThe 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.
SettingDescription
SendWhether messages arriving at the connector are automatically processed.

Performance

Alerts Tab

SLAs Tab

Macros

Examples