Dart

Convert a Text File from utf-8 to Windows-1252

Convert a text file from one character encoding to another. Dart

import 'package:chilkat/chilkat.dart';

void main() {
  // It's really simple:  Just load from one charset, save using another.

  final sb = CkStringBuilder();

  // In this case, my test file has some norwegian chars in the utf-8 encoding
  sb.loadFile('qa_data/txt/norwegian_chars.txt', 'utf-8');

  // We could just as well write over the file we just read in.
  // (But I don't want to do that for my example..)
  sb.writeFile('qa_output/norwegian_chars.txt', 'windows-1252', false);

  // Note:  Windows-1252 is a 1-byte per char encoding, which means it's only capable of representing
  // those chars in Western European languages.   See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows-1252
  // 
  // utf-8 is an encoding that can handle chars in any language, including Chinese, Korean, Japanese, Arabic, Hebrew, Greek, etc.
  // If a text file contains chars in these other languages, obviously it cannot be converted to windows-1252 because
  // there are only 256 chars that can possibly be represented in a 1-byte per char encoding.
}