Shift-JIS to UTF-8 Conversion

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C# source code sample program demonstrating how to convert Shift-JIS Japanese character data to utf-8.

private void button1_Click(object sender, System.EventArgs e)
{
	Chilkat.Charset cc = new Chilkat.Charset();
	cc.UnlockComponent("Anything begins 30-day trial");

	// Read Shift-JIS text from a file.
	System.IO.FileInfo fInfo = new System.IO.FileInfo("shiftJisSample.txt");
	System.IO.BinaryReader br = new System.IO.BinaryReader(
		System.IO.File.OpenRead("shiftJisSample.txt"));
	byte [] shiftJisBytes = br.ReadBytes((int)fInfo.Length);
	br.Close();

	// Convert from Shift-JIS to utf-8
	cc.ToCharset = "utf-8";
	cc.FromCharset = "Shift_JIS";
	byte [] utf8Bytes = cc.ConvertData(shiftJisBytes);

	// Write the output file in Shift-JIS
	System.IO.BinaryWriter bw = new System.IO.BinaryWriter(
		System.IO.File.Create("utf8Sample.txt"));
	bw.Write(utf8Bytes);
	bw.Close();
}