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How to recode to UTF-8 conditionally?

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Mar 15, 202634118 views
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I'm unifying the encoding of a large bunch of text files, gathered over time on different computers. I'm mainly going from ISO-8859-1 to UTF-8. This nicely converts one file: I of course want to do automated batch processing for all the files, and simply running the above for each file has the prob…

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recode ISO-8859-1..UTF-8 file.txt

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This message is quite old, but I think I can contribute to this problem : First create a script named recodeifneeded : You can use it this way : So, if you like to run it recursively and change all *.txt files encodings to (let's say) utf-8 : I hope…

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