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My client has a ton of Japanese text files which are encoded in Shift-JIS.

They need a utility which can convert these files to UTF-8.

Ideally the tool would offer both command-line and interactive options.

Do you have any suggestions?

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iconv (or iconv, as the case may be).

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    iconv <original.file> -f SHIFT-JIS -t UTF8 -c -o <converted.file> Oct 20, 2011 at 6:32
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ConvertZ is also a good free alternative

ConvertZ is a Chinese/Japanese code converter.

Features:

  • Supported file (plain text) and clipboard conversion among the following encodings: big5, gbk, hz, shift-jis, jis, euc-jp, unicode big-endian, unicode little-endian, and utf-8.
  • Batch files conversion
  • Preview before actual conversion.
  • Auto-update the charset in meta tag if specified in HTML docs.
  • Auto-fix mis-mapped Big5/GBK characters.
  • Change encoding of mp3's ID3v1/v2 tag among big5, gbk, shift-jis, unicode and utf-8.

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