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+package org.tn5250j.encoding.builtin;
+
+import org.tn5250j.encoding.ICodePage;
+
+/**
+ * Interface for classes which do the translation from
+ * EBCDIC bytes to Unicode characters and vice versa.
+ *
+ */
+public interface ICodepageConverter extends ICodePage {
+
+    /**
+     * Returns an name/ID for this converter.
+     * Example '273' or 'CP1252'. This name should be unique,
+     * cause it's used in user settungs and so on.
+     *
+     * @return
+     */
+    public abstract String getName();
+
+    /**
+     * Returns a short description for this converter.
+     * For Example '273 - German, EBCDIC'
+     *
+     * @return
+     */
+    public abstract String getDescription();
+
+    /**
+     * Does special initialization stuff for this converter.
+     */
+    public abstract ICodepageConverter init();
+
+}
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