Perl

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

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

use strict;
use warnings;
use Chilkat2;

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

my $sb = Chilkat2::StringBuilder->new;

# In this case, my test file has some norwegian chars in the utf-8 encoding
my $success = $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..)
$success = $sb->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.