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Any2UTF8


A simple tool to convert plain text files
from any character encoding to UTF8

Windows

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  • Tested on Windows 10 & 11


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  • Requires Java 8


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Key features

The App detects the character encoding of a text file and converts it to UTF8.

Recursive batch conversion of entire folders containing files in mixed encodings, the encoding of each file will be detected and converted to UTF8, files already in UTF8 will not be converted.

Free and open source software.

Command-line version available for advanced users.

More information here.



About

This App was developed at the Department of Interpretation and Translation of the University of Bologna by Eros Zanchetta.



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.

The source code is available on GitHub.

Thanks to Steganography icons created by Vectors Tank - Flaticon for the program icon