Kaboom

Kaboom converts code pages of text files to unicode & filters clipboard contents

Kaboom  Review

Kaboom is an utility for software and web developers of any kind. It is usefull for everybody who has to translate text and writes foreign text in code pages different than the one installed on his local computer. Sisulizer helps you with foreign code pages and if you have to decode your text from an URL, out of e-mail bodys or headers, or need to calculate check sums, and much more. Kaboom file converter changes code pages of text files, e.g. from shift-jis into UTF-8 and vice versa. It supports Windows, DOS, IBM, ISO, ASCII, ISCII, Macintosh and UNICODE code pages. Kaboom can read and write byte order marks and is very usefull for everybody who has to deal with text files in foreign code pages. In addition Kaboom has over 50 clipboard filters, for replacement of special chars into character entity references, international chars in URLs (IDNA, Punycode), base64 encoding, quoted printable, conversion into UTF-7 and UTF-8, and much more. Kaboom also knows the code page number for various code page names and vice versa. List of filters: Clean Up String Lower Case Make Caps Remove White Chars Tabs to Blanks Upper Case CRC16, CRC32, Internet Checksum Char to OEM UTF-16 to UTF-7 UTF-16 to UTF-8 OEM to Char UTF-7 to UFT-16 UTF-8 to UTF-16 Code page Name from Code page Number Code page Number from Code page Name Calc full filename Long Filename to Short Path with Drive to UNC Short Filename to Long Hex-Stream Hex-Dump International Domain Names (IDNA/PunyCode) Mail Data Base64 Mail Data Quoted Printable Mail Header Quoted Binary (RFC1522) Mail Header Quoted Printable (RFC1522) URL AntiHarvest (complete NCR) International Domain Names (IDNA/PunyCode) CR to CRLF, CRLF to CR, CRLF to LF, LF to CRLF CRLF to <BR> CRLF to Blanks RLE Encode, Decode ROT13 Soundex Strip Tags from HTML Get HTML, Fragment Copy Kabooms clipboard utility is fully UNICODE aware making it the #1 choice for everybody working with more than one code page.