Topic: libs/converter.php quick question (easy one I think)

[phoenixx]

What is the purpose of the libs/converter.php file other than to go back and forth from utf-8 to windows code? I'm trying to make a heavy modification of the server and not sure if I should mess with the file or not.  What, exactly does it do?

[Inspirer]

This table is used for cyrillic languages when system iconv doesn't work. It can be used to read ru/ua properties file.

There are five areas where text can be encoded differently: mibew ($webim_encoding), database ($dbencoding), localization files (first line of properties file), output html page (getoutputenc()), email ($mail_encoding).

In the simplest case we use utf-8 everywhere (don't need iconv).