File encoding commande

Question

I have 1200 files encoded ANSI. I need to convert them into UTF-8. It is not reasonable to convert each file using the simple solution file/save as! Is there a commande in php which convert files from ANSI to UTF-8?

Is there a particular reason for using php? There are tons of similar questions on SO (and probably elsewhere) with solutions in many languages… There are also similar questions on [su], like [this one](http://superuser.com/q/113394) — Didier L, Sep 30 '15 at 22:59
I am not very good in java but I will try the code mentioned — Rim, Sep 30 '15 at 23:06

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Sep 30 '15 at 23:53

You can do this with the iconv library, which has a PHP binding (https://secure.php.net/manual/en/function.iconv.php). Consider using the command-line program to convert your source files instead, and keeping everything in utf8 instead of juggling encodings.

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Oct 01 '15 at 00:42

I have found the solution using PHP. This is the code used:

<?php
 set_time_limit ( 30000 );
$k=0;
while ($k<1232)
{
   $fres="contenu_url".$k.".txt";
   $inF = fopen($fres,"r");     
   $fres1="contenu_utf".$k.".txt";
   $OutF = fopen($fres1,"w+");  
   $k=$k+1;
   if($inF == false)
     echo "<p>Impossible d'ouvrir le fichier</p>.\n";
   $contenu_ancien="";
   while (!feof($inF)) 
                    $contenu_ancien .= fgets($inF, 4096);

   $contenu_utf8 = utf8_encode ($contenu_ancien);
        fputs($OutF,$contenu_utf8);
   fclose($OutF);   fclose($inF);
    }

 ?>

File encoding commande

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