Thread: Convert file from any encoding to UTF-8

I have files that are either encoded in ASCII (Windows-1252) or UTF-8 (with or without BOM encoding). How can I convert them from their encoding to UTF-8, like I could do with text editors like Notepad++?

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You can establish an input stream to the original file and fetch the data, then place it in an output steam with UTF-8 encoding.
Example of the output stream creation.

BufferedWriter out = new BufferedWriter(new OutputStreamWriter(new FileOutputStream(file),"UTF8"));

Originally Posted by Mrc0d3r

You can establish an input stream to the original file and fetch the data, then place it in an output steam with UTF-8 encoding.
Example of the output stream creation.

BufferedWriter out = new BufferedWriter(new OutputStreamWriter(new FileOutputStream(file),"UTF8"));

Thank you. I've found that when specifying encoding for the output is necessary as well to specify it for the input:

BufferedReader input = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(new FileInputStream(file), encType));

The encType can be obtained from org.mozilla.universalchardet.UniversalDetector
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If encType is null don't specify encoding.