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();

}