Java

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

Convert a text file from one character encoding to another. Chilkat2 Java

import com.chilkatsoft.chilkat2.StringBuilder;

public class ChilkatExample {

    public static void main(String[] args) {
        // It's really simple:  Just load from one charset, save using another.

        StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();

        // 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.
    }
}