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Matilda Ajiri
Matilda Ajiri

Reputation: 63

Batch file to covert unicode text to Ansi text

How can I convert a directory of pre-existing text from Unicode to ANSI with a batch file? Is there some tool that I can use to loop through the files and perform the conversion?

Upvotes: 4

Views: 13139

Answers (2)

dbenham
dbenham

Reputation: 130919

EDIT - The following will convert UTF-16 with BOM. I don't think it works with any of the other UTF formats. I know it doesn't work for UTF-8. I'm not sure about UTF-32 with BOM

for %%F in (*.txt) do type "%%F" >"%%~nF.converted"

If run from the command line then use single percent % instead of double percent %%.

After you verify the converted files are correct, you can

del *.txt
ren *.converted *.txt

Upvotes: 5

ziesemer
ziesemer

Reputation: 28707

See https://superuser.com/questions/27060/batch-convert-files-for-encoding-or-line-ending. Specifically, iconv looks exactly like what you're looking for.

You're looking for the reverse of the example posted there, so you'd want something like this:

$ iconv -f utf-8 -t windows-1252 infile > outfile

Upvotes: 5

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