Convert UTF-16 to UTF-8 under Windows and Linux, in C

c unicode utf-8 utf-16
DooriBar picture DooriBar · May 19, 2010 · Viewed 63.3k times · Source

I was wondering if there is a recommended 'cross' Windows and Linux method for the purpose of converting strings from UTF-16LE to UTF-8? or one should use different methods for each environment?

I've managed to google few references to 'iconv' , but for somreason I can't find samples of basic conversions, such as - converting a wchar_t UTF-16 to UTF-8.

Anybody can recommend a method that would be 'cross', and if you know of references or a guide with samples, would very appreciate it.

Thanks, Doori Bar

Answer

user4657497 picture user4657497 · Mar 11, 2015

Change encoding to UTF-8 with PowerShell: 

powershell -Command "Get-Content PATH\temp.txt -Encoding Unicode | Set-Content -Encoding UTF8 PATH2\temp.txt"

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