Converting Windows-1252 to UTF-8

[developer155]

I ahve an XML file that contains some Windows 1252 characters like ' . The XML file has to be
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
Is there a way I can write a vb script to read the original file and spit out a file that does not contain Win 1252 characters?

thanks

 

[MakeItSo]

There is an excellent freeware to convert various file types and encodings, called Rainbow:

http://www.translate.com/technology/tools/Rainbow4.html

From what you describe, you probably want to encode it to "escaped unicode"?
In any case if you need to do several conversions, I recommend Rainbow. It can work through all files in sbufolders of a pre-set root directory and convert from RTF, UTF-8, UTF-16, ASCII-Text, HTML...->UTF-8, UTF-16, Escaped Unicode, ASCII...

Good luck!
Andy

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