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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 | + | ===== What the app does ===== |
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+ | 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. | 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. | ||
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+ | 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). | ||
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+ | **NB**: batch conversion is **recursive**, | ||
===== Download ===== | ===== Download ===== |