Utility for Converting Shift-Jis Encoded Files to Utf-8 Encoded Files [Closed]

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My client has a ton of Japanese text files which are encoded in Shift-JIS.

They need a utility which can convert these files to UTF-8.

Ideally the tool would offer both command-line and interactive options.

Do you have any suggestions?

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iconv (or iconv, as the case may be).

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ConvertZ is also a good free alternative

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Utility for Converting Shift-Jis Encoded Files to Utf-8 Encoded Files [Closed]

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