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I have 50 text files which need to be converted from utf-8 bom to ANSI. In Notepad++ We can do it with single file, but I want all opened files to be converted to ANSI in one short way. Is there any option there?
Abd
Posted 2016-12-29T07:06:02.327
Reputation: 89
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Suppose that your utf8bom files are in c:\temp\utf8\
I am saving the ansi files to c:\temp\ansi\
At command line,
> powershell
PS> get-item c:\temp\utf8\*.* | foreach-object {get-content $_ | out-file ("c:\temp\ansi\" + $_.Name) -encoding default}
PS> exit
>
What it does is that for each file in c:\temp\utf8, get its content and output to a file with the same filename in c:\temp\ansi with the Windows system default encoding, which is equivalent to ANSI you meant.
get-content command here can read the text without you specifying utf8 with or without bom.
chingNotCHing
Posted 2016-12-29T07:06:02.327
Reputation: 876
It seems that u need a way in command line to do it. Have you looked for a powershell solution? – chingNotCHing – 2016-12-29T11:11:06.467
i did not try., im not a power user or script writer. just looking for a tool that could do this job. any other way?. if it can be done in command line please let me know how to do it. – Abd – 2016-12-29T19:54:08.233