The main features of this release focus on Chilkat’s Ai class, enabling interactive AI response streaming directly into embedded desktop application browsers. It supports Azure, custom base URLs for OpenAI-compatible providers, and local providers like Ollama. ✨ New Features Ai Real-Time Streaming AI Responses to Embedded Browsers in Desktop Apps — Stream AI responses […]
Previous Version: Chilkat v11.1.0 Release Notes The main addition in v11.2.0 is the Chilkat.Ai class, and the Chilkat.StringBuilder.MarkdownToHtml method. Ai: The Chilkat AI class provides a unified API for interacting with different AI providers: OpenAI, Google, Claude, xAI, Perplexity, and DeepSeek. It provides functionality for conversation management, multimodal inputs, and streaming mode. Markdown to HTML […]
Starting with the v10.0.0 release (end of September 2024), Chilkat moves to standard semantic versioning. Prior to this release, for various technical reasons, Chilkat was stuck with versions 9.5.0.xx, where only xx changed. For this first leap to semantic versioning, where the major version changes to 10 (from 9), there are no backward incompatible changes. […]
Question: We’ve purchased a few of your products in the past and they work great. Here’s a question on another one: I’m creating a .csv file within a vfp program and I need it to be an Utf-8 format. I’m not finding anywhere how to do that programatically. Do you have a product that will […]
In many places in the Chilkat API, there are properties or method arguments for a charset (also known as character encoding). All acceptable and supported charset names are listed here. (The vast majority are likely almost never used.) Before we list the names and the corresponding code pages, there are a few special values. “ansi” […]
Chilkat provides API’s that are identical across a variety of different programming languages. One difficulty in doing this is in handling strings. Different programming languages pass strings in different ways. In some programming languages, such as Python or C/C++, a “string” is simply a sequence of bytes terminated by a null. (I’m referring to “multibyte” […]
Question: In C++, is it somehow possible to specify a desired charset (like ISO-8859-15) when getting mail headers with POP3? Answer: Instead of calling the method that returns a “const char *” — which can return either utf-8 or ANSI (see this Chilkat blog post about the Utf8 property common to all Chilkat C++ classes), […]
Question: I have a Base64 decode error, as follows: CkString str; str.setString(“16q”); str.base64Decode(“gb2312”); const char *strResult = str.getString(); convert result is { cb f2 } But the correct result should be { d7 aa} What’s wrong? The platform is WinCE 6.0, use Chilkat_PPC_M5.lib Answer: The following code shows how to do it correctly: CkString str; […]
Charset Name Charset Value (Hex) Charset Value (Decimal) Code-Page ID ANSI_CHARSET 0x00 0 1252 DEFAULT_CHARSET 0x01 1 SYMBOL_CHARSET 0x02 2 SHIFTJIS_CHARSET 0x80 128 932 HANGUL_CHARSET 0x81 129 949 GB2312_CHARSET 0x86 134 936 CHINESEBIG5_CHARSET 0x88 136 950 GREEK_CHARSET 0xA1 161 1253 TURKISH_CHARSET 0xA2 162 1254 HEBREW_CHARSET 0xB1 177 1255 ARABIC_CHARSET 0xB2 178 1256 BALTIC_CHARSET 0xBA 186 […]
