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- | ====== Any2UTF8 ====== | + | ====== Any2UTF8 |
Any2UTF8 is a simple tool to convert plain text file in any character encoding to UTF8. | 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. | + | ==== Download ==== |
- | 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. | + | The latest version |
- | ===== Download ===== | + | ==== What the app does ==== |
- | The latest version is 1.0, released on March 6th, 2024. | + | The app automatically detects the character encoding of the source file and converts it to UTF8. |
- | === Windows === | + | 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. |
- | {{: | + | 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). |
- | === MacOS === | + | **NB**: batch conversion is **recursive**, |
- | {{: | + | ==== How to use the command-line version (advanced users) ==== |
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- | === Portable version (any platform) | + | |
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- | ==== 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: | 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 | java -jar any2utf8-cli.jar --help | ||
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- | ===== License ===== | ||
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- | 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. | ||
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- | 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. | ||
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- | You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program. | ||
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- | Thanks to [[https:// |