encoding - Utility for converting Shift-JIS encoded files to UTF-8 encoded files

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2014-03
  • frankadelic

    My client has a ton of Japanese text files which are encoded in Shift-JIS.

    They need a utility which can convert these files to UTF-8.

    Ideally, the tool would offer both command-line and interactive options.

    Any suggestions?

    (PS - could someone with rep add the "shift-jis" tag?)

    • Answers
  • Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams

    iconv (or iconv, as the case may be).

  • Lưu Vĩnh Phúc

    ConvertZ is also a good free alternative


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  • jason

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    I have a bunch of text files that I'd like to convert from any given charset to UTF-8 encoding.

    Are there any command line tools or Perl (or language of your choice) one liners I can use to do this en masse?


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  • grawity

    iconv does convert between many character encodings. So adding a little bash magic and we can write

    for file in *.txt; do
    iconv -f ascii -t utf-8 "$file" -o "${file%.txt}.utf8.txt"
done

    This will run iconv -f ascii -t utf-8 to every file ending in .txt, sending the recoded file to a file with the same name but ending in .utf8.txt instead of .txt.

    It's not as if this would actually do anything to your files (because ASCII is a subset of UTF-8), but to answer your question about how to convert between encodings.