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-====== Any2UTF8 ======
+====== Any2UTF8 HowTo ======
 Any2UTF8 is a simple tool to convert plain text file in any character encoding to UTF8.
-The program automatically detects the character encoding of the source file and converts it to UTF8.
+===== What the app does =====
+The app automatically detects the character encoding of the source file and converts it to UTF8.
 It is also possibile to perform batch conversions of entire folders containing files in mixed encodings, the encoding of each file will be detected and converted to UTF8, if a file is already in UTF8 it will not be converted.
-===== Download =====
+Files that are not plain text will be skipped (i.e. Word and PDF files will not be converted, but XML and HTML files will be).
-The latest version is 1.0, released on March 6th, 2024.
+**NB**: batch conversion is **recursive**, which means that all files in the subfolders will be converted too, and the folder structure of the source folder will be recreated.
-=== Windows ===
+===== Download =====
-{{:any2utf8:download:windows_32x32.png?nolink|}} {{ :any2utf8:download:any2utf8.msi |Download for Windows}}
+The latest version is 1.0, released on March 6th, 2024 from the official website: https://any2utf8.dipintra.it/
-=== MacOS ===
+==== How to use the command-line version (advanced users) ====
-{{:any2utf8:download:mac_32x32.png?nolink|}} {{ :any2utf8:download:any2utf8.dmg |Download for MacOS (ARM64)}}
-=== Portable version (any platform) ===
-{{:any2utf8:download:java.png?nolink|}} {{ :any2utf8:download:any2utf8.zip|Download portable version (Requires Java 8 or later)}}
-==== Command-line version (advanced users) ====
 A command-line version of the program is included in the zip file of the portable version (Java 8 or later is required), launch it using:
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 java -jar any2utf8-cli.jar --help
 </code>
-===== License =====
-This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
-This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the GNU General Public License for more details.
-You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program.  If not, see http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html.
-Thanks to [[https://www.flaticon.com/free-icons/steganography|Steganography icons created by Vectors Tank - Flaticon]] for the program icon!