How do you convert encoding from UTF-8 to windows-1252?

encoding ansi iconv windows-1252
savva picture savva · Sep 7, 2011 · Viewed 13k times · Source

How can I correctly convert a text file from UTF-8 to Windows-1252?

I have tried converting the file using iconv (windows xp) but this util converted the text file to ANSI. The default code page in my Windows is Windows-1251 and so I can`t correctly display some characters.

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Mike Gleason jr Couturier picture Mike Gleason jr Couturier · Sep 7, 2011

If you only have one file to convert, I use Notepadd++ ...

Encoding Menu -> Character Sets -> Western Europeean

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