CHARCODE parameter* ==  CHARCODE=[inputCode/]outputCode[:[tosv][:connMap]]
        outputCode  ==  charCode
          charCode  ==  iso-2022-jp | euc-jp | shift_jis | utf-8 | us-ascii |
                               JIS | EUC | SJIS | UTF8 | ASCII | guess
           connMap  ==  [ProtoList][:[dstHostList][:[srcHostList]]]
                    --  restriction: applicable to HTTP, FTP, SMTP, POP,
                                     NNTP, Telnet, Tcprelay
                    --  default: none

If specified, DeleGate will convert the JIS code in text type response message into the specified character code. When UTF8 is specified, a mapping table necessary for conversion between Unicode and JIS code is downloaded automatically from the server at Unicode.Org via DeleGate.ORG.

The pseudo code name "guess" means not doing conversion but supplement the "charset" attribute in "Content-Type" header in a message when it is lacking, guessing it from the body of the message. This is useful when a viewer program (ex. a web browser) of the message is not localized to Japanese thus non-ASCII codes like EUC-JP are guessed as European or so by the viewer.

If "tosv" is specified, the conversion is applied to the request message (or a message toward a server). The conversion is also applied to fragments of Japanese text in a HTTP request message encoded in "%XX" in its request URL or in the body of a POST message (when it is encoded in Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded). The set of values of Content-Type to which the conversion is applied can be specified with HTTPCONF=post-ccx-type.

The application of the conversion can be limited only to a specified set of protocols, servers and clients specified with connMap. In the connMap, the default value of ProtoList, dstHostList and srcHostList is "*" which matches any protocols or hosts.

Example: send response in UTF8 to clients and send request in Shift_JIS to HTTP servers

CHARCODE=UTF8 CHARCODE=SJIS:tosv:http


For the FTP protocol, the conversion is applied only to the data of the ASCII type relayed on the data-connections by default. It is applied also to binary data or data on the control-connection with FTPCONF="ccx:any".

To enable this parameter for internet-mail/news protocols (SMTP, POP and NNTP), also MIMECONV parameter must be specified so that it enables character conversion (enabled by default).

A HTTP client can override this specification by sending its choice in "Accept-Language" field in a request message, which may be configurable in each client (WWW browser). For example, if "Accept-Language: (charcode=EUC)" is sent in a request from client, the response text will be converted into EUC regardless of CHARCODE specification of the DeleGate. If "Accept-Language: (charcode=THRU)" is specified, any conversion specified by the administrator of this DeleGate is disabled.