Basic features of the system

• Implements levels L0 and L1 of TLP
• Provides soft migration between current character sets codes and UNICODE (ISO 10 646/BMP)

• Portable - written in C
• General - allows conversion in any direction
• Easy to use - (defaults)
• Flexible - allows user/administrator/appl.developer adjustments
• Adaptable - allows introduction of new cultural dependent features
• Easy to customize - the conversion tables are in human readable form
• Can handle 7-bit, 8-bit and 16-bit coded character sets as well as ISO 6937/T.61
• Multi-purpose, can be used in different network applications or as independent service
• Can be incorporated in client/server applications
• Universal - it is based on Unicode (implementation level 1)
• Simple to extend: new tables
• Scaleable: to fully define N(N+1) possible paths between N different coded character sets, only N+1 conversion tables are needed
• New conversion is defined through Unicode as common interface
• The conversion is done directly between the target and the source, not involving Unicode as an intermediate step