Visual FoxPro

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

Convert a text file from one character encoding to another. Visual FoxPro

LOCAL lnSuccess
LOCAL loSb

lnSuccess = 0

* It's really simple:  Just load from one charset, save using another.

loSb = CreateObject('Chilkat.StringBuilder')

* In this case, my test file has some norwegian chars in the utf-8 encoding
lnSuccess = loSb.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..)
lnSuccess = loSb.WriteFile("qa_output/norwegian_chars.txt","windows-1252",0)

* 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.

RELEASE loSb