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Best way to convert text files between character sets? What is the fastest, easiest tool or method to convert text files between character sets? Specifically, I need to convert from UTF-8 to ISO-8859-15 and vice versa. Everything goes: one-liners in your favorite scripting language, command-line tools or other utilities for OS, web sites, etc. On Linux/UNIX/OS X/cygwin: Gnu iconv suggested by Troels Arvin is best used as a filter . It seems to be universally available. Example: $ iconv -f UTF-8 -t ISO-8859-15 in.txt > out.txt As pointed out by Ben, there is an online converter using iconv. Gnu recode (manual) suggested by Cheekysoft will convert one or several files in-place . Example: $ recode UTF8..ISO-8859-15 in.txt This one uses shorter aliases: $ recode utf8..l9 in.txt Recode also supports surfaces which can be used to convert between different line ending types and encodings: Convert newlines from LF (Unix) to CR-LF (DOS): $ recode ../CR-LF in.txt Base64 encode file: $ recode...

Is there a Windows command shell that will display Unicode characters? Assuming I have fonts installed which have the appropriate glyphs in them, is there a command shell for Windows XP that will display Unicode characters? At a minimum, two things that should display Unicode correctly: Here's what I've tried so far: No luck. I even tried installing custom fonts for cmd/PowerShell. PowerShell and cmd.exe seem to be Unicode-aware in the sense that I can copy/paste the non-printable box out of there and it will paste into other apps with the correct characters. Cygwin (?) seems to convert to the ? character and that comes through in the copy/paste. Any ideas? 12 Answers 12 This was a major issue in PowerShell v1. Version 2 is shipping with a "graphical shell" that corrects the problem, which is ultimately not with PowerShell, but with the Windows console host (which Cmd.exe also uses...