Lua

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

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

local chilkat = require("chilkat")

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

local sb = chilkat.StringBuilder.new()

-- In this case, my test file has some norwegian chars in the utf-8 encoding
local success = sb:load_file("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..)
success = sb:write_file("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.