utf-8_transcoder

Convert windows local encodings to UTF-8, but leave UTF-8 files

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I'm just trying to solve the most annoying issue of Windows OS:
Random local encodings.

This is a java program, what converts local-encoded files into UTF-8. But not touch anything else.

java -jar transcode.jar ".+\.((txt)|h|c|(cpp))" "windows-1250" "dir/to/recode/recursively"

Usage:

1. copy transcode into a folder, in your path.
2. Edit the FROM_ENCODING="windows-1250" line, replace your source encoding (This is the default for Hungary)
3. gradle build, then copy build/libs/transcoder-***.jar into the same folder, you copied transcoder
4. chmod +x transcoder

You might want to edit the regex to inclide other file extensions.
The program doesn't recognise binary so you'll have to filter files using extension. (as any binary is a valid windows-retard-encoding encoded file)

Windows

Because this is a Java program, you can run it on anywhere, but I don't know how-to make a proper wrapper script for windows.

Alternatively you can use WSL on Windows for this.