Changing text encoding?

[AlphaBoy85]

Is there any way that I could change multiple text files encoding to UTF8 thru Automator?

Thank you gents!

 

[Waragainstsleep]

Might be easier with a Shell script?

 

[AlphaBoy85]

I am sorry, what is a Shell script?

How can I use this "Shell script"? Kindly explain.

Thanks a lot!

 

[richard2]

What is the current encoding of the text files?

 

[AlphaBoy85]

What is the current encoding of the text files?

Windows

 

[richard2]

Windows has many different character encodings. Assuming the encoding is Windows-1252 (the most common one), the following Automator action should transcode the text to UTF-8:

Note: Ensure that you create a backup of the input files before you run the workflow.

Run shell script

Shell: /bin/bash
Pass input: As arguments

iconv -f WINDOWS-1252 -t UTF-8 "$@"

 

[AlphaBoy85]

Windows has many different character encodings. Assuming the encoding is Windows-1252 (the most common one), the following Automator action should transcode the text to UTF-8:

Note: Ensure that you create a backup of the input files before you run the workflow.

Run shell script

Shell: /bin/bash
Pass input: As arguments

iconv -f WINDOWS-1252 -t UTF-8 "$@"

Thanks a lot!!!