Encoding TXT UTF8NoBom -> UTF8
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(Deleted my original reply, because it was partially based on a misreading, sorry. Rephrasing to be more applicable.)
Your question doesn’t seem to be about Notepad++. https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/topic/15958/faq-desk-you-ve-asked-your-question-in-the-wrong-place
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iconvUTF-8 syntax, see, for example, https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/post/48272 which shows a working conversion to utf-8 -
You have a file in utf8 encoding - not format.
Does it include non-English symbols? I assume yes.
You try to “convert” it into what? Another specific encoding?Any converter need to:
- Know/guess the original encoding.
- Know the desired encoding.
Notepad++ seem to guess correctly.
Whatever other tool you are using is either guessing wrong (probably ascii with some code page) or just broken.
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Just read better the title.
Moving from UTF8 wo/BOM to UTF8 w/BOM is not a conversion. All that need to be done is add 3 BOM bytes to the beginning of the file. Just be sure not to add them twice. So basically create a 3 byte file with BOM and do something like (I don’t remember the exact copy syntax of Windows):
copy bom.txt+file.txt file_new.txtRead this to understand Unicode and encoding. You should realize that UTF8 w/BOM is a pretty stupid concept. So unless you need to feed your file into an application that requires UTF8 BOM stay with UTF8 wo/BOM.
