Unicode to UTF8?

Can it be scripted?

[ciscoforum]

Hey

Just wondering if anyone has any tools for converting a text file from unicode to utf8? I've been doing it with notepad but i'd like a more automated solution.

Cheers
Brad

[Alternative Future]

Hello ciscoforum,

Using native2ascii [google.com] you can do the following:

1 - Open the original file in Notepad. Make any necessary changes, then Save As, Unicode.

2 - Using Ultra Edit or similar, convert the file to UTF-8 (Unicode to UTF8, Unicode Editing)

3 - Use the java tool native2ascii to convert the file using the following command (from Command Prompt):

4 - native2ascii -encoding UTF8 [source file] [destination file]

e.g.native2ascii -encoding UTF8 D:\work\yourfile.ext

HTH,

-Gs

[ciscoforum]

Thanks for that.

Tried native2ascii but it just turned it into a huge mess.

Thanks anyway.

[bird]

First you need to figure out what encoding your file really is written in.

"Unicode" is not an encoding for file data, it's just a numbering system for characters. UTF-8 is one of several possible ways to encode unicode data for storage in files. Other popular ones are UTF-16 and UTF-32, both of which exist in big-endian and little-endian versions.

As long as you just know "unicode", your guess is as good as mine about the actual contents of the file, and the best way to convert it.

[ciscoforum]

O sorry

The file is currently UTF-32