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Character Set Converter for Windows

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This tool efficiently converts text document character encodings on the command line, supporting a vast array of character sets and large files without in-memory processing.

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  • Pros

    • Supports over 60 character sets, including UTF variants.
    • Handles unlimited file sizes with no in-memory conversion.
    • Automatic detection of most character sets.
    • Converts non-UTF-8 conform source files gracefully.
    • Utilizes Unicode.org mapping tables, not Windows API.

  • Cons

    • Command-line interface may not suit all users.
    • Limited support for Asian Windows character sets.
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Full Specifications

GENERAL
Release
Latest update
Version
2.017.8
OPERATING SYSTEMS
Platform
Windows
Operating System
  • Windows XP
  • Windows 2003
  • Windows Vista
  • Windows 7
  • Windows Server
  • Windows 10
Additional Requirements
None
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Total Downloads
7,661
Downloads Last Week
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Developer’s Description

By Benjamin Kalytta
Change the character encoding (character set) for text documents like SQL dumps, Web sites.
This is a command line conversion tool to convert from one character set to another within text documents. It supports nearly all ISO 8859 character sets, all DOS character sets, most important Apple character sets and most of Windows character sets (non asian). It is also able to convert from or to UTF-8, UTF-16 and UTF-16BE (Big Endian), UTF-32. It automatically detects most of the supported character sets. Other supported character sets are AtariST, KOI8-R, KOI8-U, KZ-1048, NeXT, various EBCDIC, total over 60 character sets are supported. The tool is based upon www.unicode.org mapping tables and don't use Windows API for conversion. Version 2 was completely redesigned and is now a command line based tool which supports same character sets as first version but also supports unlimited file sizes because no in-memory conversion is done. Also non fully utf-8 conform (overlong sequences) source files are supported without producing "invalid character" whenever possible. There are various fields of application. Converting old mainframe computer files (i.e. EBCDIC converted or DOS text files) into todays machine (PC) readable formats, converting database dumps into multi language compatible UTF-8 format, preparing old single language websites for multi language localization are just three examples.
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