Install custom character set conversion routines if the conversion functionality supplied with Open Server does not meet your needs. The most common reason for installing a custom conversion routine is to improve performance by replacing an indirect conversion with a direct conversion.
For example, an Open Server application could install a custom routine to convert between ISO 8859-1 and EUC JIS. This direct conversion may be faster than the indirect conversion (ISO 8859-1 to or from Unicode UTF-8 to/from EUC JIS) that is supplied with Open Server.
