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I'm trying to work out how to convert a file to UTF-8 but I really can't find much useful info on google other than to use iconv.... I downloaded that but when I went to run it via the CLI it told me that I hadn't installed it properly or something??

Any help?

Btw.... the file is a rather large file. (5M lines)

Thanks!

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Notepad++ provides an easy (manual) way to do it. Open your file, choose "Encoding > Convert to UTF-8", and save. I think the size limit is 2 GB.

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Ok, I just tried this but it choked on a 889MB file & I've read other reports that it couldn't even open much smaller files & hence I'm still looking. :( – Brett May 30 '11 at 19:40
Nope.... first one said "error" when I tred to run my file & didn't say why & second one I really don't think it's a good idea to paste 5M lines into a web form. ;) – Brett May 30 '11 at 21:15
Keep Googling? Here's another one: sourceforge.net/projects/iconvnet – user775598 May 30 '11 at 21:18
I'll try that... but yes, I have been looking. Tried another but seemed like it loaded the file into memory or something as Windows had to increase the size of my paging file & closing all my programs to reboot took forever. – Brett May 30 '11 at 21:31
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Well, you can just use iconv. You can for example download a Setup.exe from GnuWin32, that should just work (TM).

Also see the question Batch-convert files for encoding or line ending which describes how to convert using the command line on Windows.

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Thanks a lot! :) – Brett May 30 '11 at 16:07
No matter what I do I cannot seem to get iconv working & it keeps complaining about needing intl.dll – Brett May 30 '11 at 19:42
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