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Batch-convert files for encoding or line ending under Windows

Hey!

I have many files that are encoded in the ANSI (iso-8859-1) format and I want to change it to utf8.

I am converting one by one using notepad++ but I was wondering if there is any application that will convert them all (I have many files) in a quick and easy way.

Anyone know of one app that will do this?? (free app would be great)

Thanks

Franck Dernoncourt
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This is a perfect fit for a scripting language to convert Windows-1252 to UTF-8.

hanleyp
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You could try this SourceForge app. From the website:

Codepage Converter - Convert HTML/Text files to different encoding formats e.g. ANSI to UTF-8 or Unicode. Convert multiple files with 1 click. Works with all encodings

alex
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A bit late, but: If you saved your scripts as 'UTF without BOM' and notepad++ is now opening them as ansi -> you can 'fix' this behaviour by including a string of multibyte characters somewhere in your comments to force notepad++ to recognise the UTF encoding of the file. It's a complete hackjob, but it works ;-)