Converting text file to UTF-8 on Windows command prompt

I need to convert a text file to UTF-8 format via Windows command prompt. This needs to be done on another machine and I do not have rights to install software on that machine. I need something like:

c:\notepad source-file target-file --encoding option

Is there a Windows command prompt utility which can do it?

4 Answers

I need to convert a text file to utf-8 format via windows command prompt

You can easily do this with PowerShell:

Get-Content .\test.txt | Set-Content -Encoding utf8 test-utf8.txt

Further Reading

• Convert from most encodings to utf8 with powershell

Use iconv from GNUWin32 pack. It is much faster, especially if your files are about or more than 1 Gb.

"C:\Program Files (x86)\GnuWin32\bin\iconv.exe" -f cp1251 -t utf-8 source.txt > result.txt

Here is for each convert *.text file to *.sql file:

foreach ($file in get-ChildItem *.txt) { Echo $file.name Get-Content $file | Set-Content -Encoding utf8 ("$file.name" +".sql") }

You can do this from the command prompt as follows:

powershell -command "Get-Content .\test.txt" > test-utf8.txt

It turns out that piping the output to a file from the command prompt saves as utf-8.