nsIConverterInputStream

A unichar input stream that wraps an input stream.
This allows reading unicode strings from a stream, automatically converting
the bytes from a selected character encoding.

Methods

init(aStream, aCharset, aBufferSize, aReplacementChar)

Initialize this stream.

Parameters

aStream The underlying stream to read from.
aCharset The character encoding to use for converting the bytes of the stream. A null charset will be interpreted as UTF-8.
aBufferSize How many bytes to buffer.
aReplacementChar The character to replace unknown byte sequences in the stream with. The standard replacement character is U+FFFD. A value of 0x0000 will cause an exception to be thrown if unknown byte sequences are encountered in the stream.

Constants

DEFAULT_REPLACEMENT_CHARACTER

Default replacement char value, U+FFFD REPLACEMENT CHARACTER.