Generally I prefer to set locale for non-Unicode applications to US-English on my Windows PCs because several applications have the nasty habit to autotranslate their interfaces (eg *coughInteldriverscoughcough*) according to that setting and I absolutely hate any kind of translation of technical terminology .
This has the nasty side-effect of not being able to read text files written in my native language (eg movie subtitles) unless they're of course in Unicode encoding . That was not much of a problem because I could always use my favorite text editor, Notepad++, to set the encoding to Windows-1253 (CP1253) and then convert to UTF-8 Unicode. After a while though this process became quite tedious. Specially when I had to convert several files in a row.
So I came up with this idea. How about an explorer shell extension that would allow me to right click the file and convert it with a single click? Then I went ahead and cooked something up really fast!
So here it is: ConvertToUTF8_v1.0
(Ad displayed for 5 seconds before download starts).
The default setting is to convert CP1253 to UTF8 but there are instructions inside the "Readme_First.txt" file in order to change this to any encoding/language you want/need. It also includes very simple installation/uninstallation instructions.
If you really found this useful and got nothing better to do with your money, hit the "Coffee to Code Conversion Fund" Donate button, to allow me to convert coffee into a full blown and configurable .dll shell extension! :)
If you want to, you can also use this to convert to other encodings instead of UTF-8.. you may want to convert files to UTF-16 or whatever. It's your call, just adjust the iconv.exe in and out parameters.
You can also make multiple settings by copying the.cmd file to another name, edit the in out parameters. Then copy with another name and edit the install/uninstall .reg files accordingly.
The idea is flexible, do what you want with it:)
Quoting the "Readme_First.txt" file below:
This is a shell extension that will allow you to convert any text file to Unicode UTF8 by
right clicking and selecting "Convert Greek To UTF8". It says Greek because that's the default
setting. Below I will explain how to change that to another ANSI codepage (language) and how
to install and uninstall it.
This package was made by Nodens (Panagiotis Kalogiratos) and depends on iconv.exe tool which is licensed under GPL!
Note: If you want to set it to another language you have to do it prior to installing.
If you have installed, use the uninstallation procedure first or else the extension name will still
say "Greek" even after you edit the files.
Installation:
1. Copy "convertToUTF8.cmd", "iconv.exe" and "libiconv-2__.dll" to "C:\Windows"
2. Double-click the "convertToUTF8_install.reg" file.
Unistallation:
1. Double-click the "convertToUTF8_uninstall.reg" file.
2. Delete "convertToUTF8.cmd" and "iconv.exe" from "C:\Windows"
Customize to other encodings/languages:
1. Edit the two ".reg" files and change "Convert Greek to Unicode" string in it to any language you want (eg. "Convert Arabic to Unicode").
2. Edit "convertToUTF8.cmd" and change "CP1253" to any other supported ANSI codepage:
(This list can also be obtained via running "iconv -l").
-----------------------------------
ANSI_X3.4-1968 ANSI_X3.4-1986 ASCII CP367 IBM367 ISO-IR-6 ISO646-US ISO_646.IRV:
1991 US US-ASCII CSASCII
UTF-8
ISO-10646-UCS-2 UCS-2 CSUNICODE
UCS-2BE UNICODE-1-1 UNICODEBIG CSUNICODE11
UCS-2LE UNICODELITTLE
ISO-10646-UCS-4 UCS-4 CSUCS4
UCS-4BE
UCS-4LE
UTF-16
UTF-16BE
UTF-16LE
UTF-32
UTF-32BE
UTF-32LE
UNICODE-1-1-UTF-7 UTF-7 CSUNICODE11UTF7
UCS-2-INTERNAL
UCS-2-SWAPPED
UCS-4-INTERNAL
UCS-4-SWAPPED
C99
JAVA
CP819 IBM819 ISO-8859-1 ISO-IR-100 ISO8859-1 ISO_8859-1 ISO_8859-1:1987 L1 LATIN1 CSISOLATIN1
ISO-8859-2 ISO-IR-101 ISO8859-2 ISO_8859-2 ISO_8859-2:1987 L2 LATIN2 CSISOLATIN2
ISO-8859-3 ISO-IR-109 ISO8859-3 ISO_8859-3 ISO_8859-3:1988 L3 LATIN3 CSISOLATIN3
ISO-8859-4 ISO-IR-110 ISO8859-4 ISO_8859-4 ISO_8859-4:1988 L4 LATIN4 CSISOLATIN4
CYRILLIC ISO-8859-5 ISO-IR-144 ISO8859-5 ISO_8859-5 ISO_8859-5:1988 CSISOLATINCYRILLIC
ARABIC ASMO-708 ECMA-114 ISO-8859-6 ISO-IR-127 ISO8859-6 ISO_8859-6 ISO_8859-6:1987 CSISOLATINARABIC
ECMA-118 ELOT_928 GREEK GREEK8 ISO-8859-7 ISO-IR-126 ISO8859-7 ISO_8859-7 ISO_8859-7:1987 ISO_8859-7:2003 CSISOLATINGREEK
HEBREW ISO-8859-8 ISO-IR-138 ISO8859-8 ISO_8859-8 ISO_8859-8:1988 CSISOLATINHEBREW
ISO-8859-9 ISO-IR-148 ISO8859-9 ISO_8859-9 ISO_8859-9:1989 L5 LATIN5 CSISOLATIN5
ISO-8859-10 ISO-IR-157 ISO8859-10 ISO_8859-10 ISO_8859-10:1992 L6 LATIN6 CSISOLATIN6
ISO-8859-11 ISO8859-11 ISO_8859-11
ISO-8859-13 ISO-IR-179 ISO8859-13 ISO_8859-13 L7 LATIN7
ISO-8859-14 ISO-CELTIC ISO-IR-199 ISO8859-14 ISO_8859-14 ISO_8859-14:1998 L8 LATIN8
ISO-8859-15 ISO-IR-203 ISO8859-15 ISO_8859-15 ISO_8859-15:1998 LATIN-9
ISO-8859-16 ISO-IR-226 ISO8859-16 ISO_8859-16 ISO_8859-16:2001 L10 LATIN10
KOI8-R CSKOI8R
KOI8-U
KOI8-RU
CP1250 MS-EE WINDOWS-1250
CP1251 MS-CYRL WINDOWS-1251
CP1252 MS-ANSI WINDOWS-1252
CP1253 MS-GREEK WINDOWS-1253
CP1254 MS-TURK WINDOWS-1254
CP1255 MS-HEBR WINDOWS-1255
CP1256 MS-ARAB WINDOWS-1256
CP1257 WINBALTRIM WINDOWS-1257
CP1258 WINDOWS-1258
850 CP850 IBM850 CSPC850MULTILINGUAL
862 CP862 IBM862 CSPC862LATINHEBREW
866 CP866 IBM866 CSIBM866
CP1131
MAC MACINTOSH MACROMAN CSMACINTOSH
MACCENTRALEUROPE
MACICELAND
MACCROATIAN
MACROMANIA
MACCYRILLIC
MACUKRAINE
MACGREEK
MACTURKISH
MACHEBREW
MACARABIC
MACTHAI
HP-ROMAN8 R8 ROMAN8 CSHPROMAN8
NEXTSTEP
ARMSCII-8
GEORGIAN-ACADEMY
GEORGIAN-PS
KOI8-T
CP154 CYRILLIC-ASIAN PT154 PTCP154 CSPTCP154
KZ-1048 RK1048 STRK1048-2002 CSKZ1048
MULELAO-1
CP1133 IBM-CP1133
ISO-IR-166 TIS-620 TIS620 TIS620-0 TIS620.2529-1 TIS620.2533-0 TIS620.2533-1
CP874 WINDOWS-874
VISCII VISCII1.1-1 CSVISCII
TCVN TCVN-5712 TCVN5712-1 TCVN5712-1:1993
ISO-IR-14 ISO646-JP JIS_C6220-1969-RO JP CSISO14JISC6220RO
JISX0201-1976 JIS_X0201 X0201 CSHALFWIDTHKATAKANA
ISO-IR-87 JIS0208 JIS_C6226-1983 JIS_X0208 JIS_X0208-1983 JIS_X0208-1990 X0208 CSISO87JISX0208
ISO-IR-159 JIS_X0212 JIS_X0212-1990 JIS_X0212.1990-0 X0212 CSISO159JISX02121990
CN GB_1988-80 ISO-IR-57 ISO646-CN CSISO57GB1988
CHINESE GB_2312-80 ISO-IR-58 CSISO58GB231280
CN-GB-ISOIR165 ISO-IR-165
ISO-IR-149 KOREAN KSC_5601 KS_C_5601-1987 KS_C_5601-1989 CSKSC56011987
EUC-JP EUCJP EXTENDED_UNIX_CODE_PACKED_FORMAT_FOR_JAPANESE CSEUCPKDFMTJAPANESE
MS_KANJI SHIFT-JIS SHIFT_JIS SJIS CSSHIFTJIS
CP932
ISO-2022-JP CSISO2022JP
ISO-2022-JP-1
ISO-2022-JP-2 CSISO2022JP2
CN-GB EUC-CN EUCCN GB2312 CSGB2312
GBK
CP936 MS936 WINDOWS-936
GB18030
ISO-2022-CN CSISO2022CN
ISO-2022-CN-EXT
HZ HZ-GB-2312
EUC-TW EUCTW CSEUCTW
BIG-5 BIG-FIVE BIG5 BIGFIVE CN-BIG5 CSBIG5
CP950
BIG5-HKSCS:1999
BIG5-HKSCS:2001
BIG5-HKSCS:2004
BIG5-HKSCS BIG5-HKSCS:2008 BIG5HKSCS
EUC-KR EUCKR CSEUCKR
CP949 UHC
CP1361 JOHAB
ISO-2022-KR CSISO2022KR
437 CP437 IBM437 CSPC8CODEPAGE437
CP737
CP775 IBM775 CSPC775BALTIC
852 CP852 IBM852 CSPCP852
CP853
855 CP855 IBM855 CSIBM855
857 CP857 IBM857 CSIBM857
CP858
860 CP860 IBM860 CSIBM860
861 CP-IS CP861 IBM861 CSIBM861
863 CP863 IBM863 CSIBM863
CP864 IBM864 CSIBM864
865 CP865 IBM865 CSIBM865
869 CP-GR CP869 IBM869 CSIBM869
CP1125
This has the nasty side-effect of not being able to read text files written in my native language (eg movie subtitles) unless they're of course in Unicode encoding . That was not much of a problem because I could always use my favorite text editor, Notepad++, to set the encoding to Windows-1253 (CP1253) and then convert to UTF-8 Unicode. After a while though this process became quite tedious. Specially when I had to convert several files in a row.
So I came up with this idea. How about an explorer shell extension that would allow me to right click the file and convert it with a single click? Then I went ahead and cooked something up really fast!
So here it is: ConvertToUTF8_v1.0
(Ad displayed for 5 seconds before download starts).
The default setting is to convert CP1253 to UTF8 but there are instructions inside the "Readme_First.txt" file in order to change this to any encoding/language you want/need. It also includes very simple installation/uninstallation instructions.
If you really found this useful and got nothing better to do with your money, hit the "Coffee to Code Conversion Fund" Donate button, to allow me to convert coffee into a full blown and configurable .dll shell extension! :)
If you want to, you can also use this to convert to other encodings instead of UTF-8.. you may want to convert files to UTF-16 or whatever. It's your call, just adjust the iconv.exe in and out parameters.
You can also make multiple settings by copying the.cmd file to another name, edit the in out parameters. Then copy with another name and edit the install/uninstall .reg files accordingly.
The idea is flexible, do what you want with it:)
Quoting the "Readme_First.txt" file below:
This is a shell extension that will allow you to convert any text file to Unicode UTF8 by
right clicking and selecting "Convert Greek To UTF8". It says Greek because that's the default
setting. Below I will explain how to change that to another ANSI codepage (language) and how
to install and uninstall it.
This package was made by Nodens (Panagiotis Kalogiratos) and depends on iconv.exe tool which is licensed under GPL!
Note: If you want to set it to another language you have to do it prior to installing.
If you have installed, use the uninstallation procedure first or else the extension name will still
say "Greek" even after you edit the files.
Installation:
1. Copy "convertToUTF8.cmd", "iconv.exe" and "libiconv-2__.dll" to "C:\Windows"
2. Double-click the "convertToUTF8_install.reg" file.
Unistallation:
1. Double-click the "convertToUTF8_uninstall.reg" file.
2. Delete "convertToUTF8.cmd" and "iconv.exe" from "C:\Windows"
Customize to other encodings/languages:
1. Edit the two ".reg" files and change "Convert Greek to Unicode" string in it to any language you want (eg. "Convert Arabic to Unicode").
2. Edit "convertToUTF8.cmd" and change "CP1253" to any other supported ANSI codepage:
(This list can also be obtained via running "iconv -l").
-----------------------------------
ANSI_X3.4-1968 ANSI_X3.4-1986 ASCII CP367 IBM367 ISO-IR-6 ISO646-US ISO_646.IRV:
1991 US US-ASCII CSASCII
UTF-8
ISO-10646-UCS-2 UCS-2 CSUNICODE
UCS-2BE UNICODE-1-1 UNICODEBIG CSUNICODE11
UCS-2LE UNICODELITTLE
ISO-10646-UCS-4 UCS-4 CSUCS4
UCS-4BE
UCS-4LE
UTF-16
UTF-16BE
UTF-16LE
UTF-32
UTF-32BE
UTF-32LE
UNICODE-1-1-UTF-7 UTF-7 CSUNICODE11UTF7
UCS-2-INTERNAL
UCS-2-SWAPPED
UCS-4-INTERNAL
UCS-4-SWAPPED
C99
JAVA
CP819 IBM819 ISO-8859-1 ISO-IR-100 ISO8859-1 ISO_8859-1 ISO_8859-1:1987 L1 LATIN1 CSISOLATIN1
ISO-8859-2 ISO-IR-101 ISO8859-2 ISO_8859-2 ISO_8859-2:1987 L2 LATIN2 CSISOLATIN2
ISO-8859-3 ISO-IR-109 ISO8859-3 ISO_8859-3 ISO_8859-3:1988 L3 LATIN3 CSISOLATIN3
ISO-8859-4 ISO-IR-110 ISO8859-4 ISO_8859-4 ISO_8859-4:1988 L4 LATIN4 CSISOLATIN4
CYRILLIC ISO-8859-5 ISO-IR-144 ISO8859-5 ISO_8859-5 ISO_8859-5:1988 CSISOLATINCYRILLIC
ARABIC ASMO-708 ECMA-114 ISO-8859-6 ISO-IR-127 ISO8859-6 ISO_8859-6 ISO_8859-6:1987 CSISOLATINARABIC
ECMA-118 ELOT_928 GREEK GREEK8 ISO-8859-7 ISO-IR-126 ISO8859-7 ISO_8859-7 ISO_8859-7:1987 ISO_8859-7:2003 CSISOLATINGREEK
HEBREW ISO-8859-8 ISO-IR-138 ISO8859-8 ISO_8859-8 ISO_8859-8:1988 CSISOLATINHEBREW
ISO-8859-9 ISO-IR-148 ISO8859-9 ISO_8859-9 ISO_8859-9:1989 L5 LATIN5 CSISOLATIN5
ISO-8859-10 ISO-IR-157 ISO8859-10 ISO_8859-10 ISO_8859-10:1992 L6 LATIN6 CSISOLATIN6
ISO-8859-11 ISO8859-11 ISO_8859-11
ISO-8859-13 ISO-IR-179 ISO8859-13 ISO_8859-13 L7 LATIN7
ISO-8859-14 ISO-CELTIC ISO-IR-199 ISO8859-14 ISO_8859-14 ISO_8859-14:1998 L8 LATIN8
ISO-8859-15 ISO-IR-203 ISO8859-15 ISO_8859-15 ISO_8859-15:1998 LATIN-9
ISO-8859-16 ISO-IR-226 ISO8859-16 ISO_8859-16 ISO_8859-16:2001 L10 LATIN10
KOI8-R CSKOI8R
KOI8-U
KOI8-RU
CP1250 MS-EE WINDOWS-1250
CP1251 MS-CYRL WINDOWS-1251
CP1252 MS-ANSI WINDOWS-1252
CP1253 MS-GREEK WINDOWS-1253
CP1254 MS-TURK WINDOWS-1254
CP1255 MS-HEBR WINDOWS-1255
CP1256 MS-ARAB WINDOWS-1256
CP1257 WINBALTRIM WINDOWS-1257
CP1258 WINDOWS-1258
850 CP850 IBM850 CSPC850MULTILINGUAL
862 CP862 IBM862 CSPC862LATINHEBREW
866 CP866 IBM866 CSIBM866
CP1131
MAC MACINTOSH MACROMAN CSMACINTOSH
MACCENTRALEUROPE
MACICELAND
MACCROATIAN
MACROMANIA
MACCYRILLIC
MACUKRAINE
MACGREEK
MACTURKISH
MACHEBREW
MACARABIC
MACTHAI
HP-ROMAN8 R8 ROMAN8 CSHPROMAN8
NEXTSTEP
ARMSCII-8
GEORGIAN-ACADEMY
GEORGIAN-PS
KOI8-T
CP154 CYRILLIC-ASIAN PT154 PTCP154 CSPTCP154
KZ-1048 RK1048 STRK1048-2002 CSKZ1048
MULELAO-1
CP1133 IBM-CP1133
ISO-IR-166 TIS-620 TIS620 TIS620-0 TIS620.2529-1 TIS620.2533-0 TIS620.2533-1
CP874 WINDOWS-874
VISCII VISCII1.1-1 CSVISCII
TCVN TCVN-5712 TCVN5712-1 TCVN5712-1:1993
ISO-IR-14 ISO646-JP JIS_C6220-1969-RO JP CSISO14JISC6220RO
JISX0201-1976 JIS_X0201 X0201 CSHALFWIDTHKATAKANA
ISO-IR-87 JIS0208 JIS_C6226-1983 JIS_X0208 JIS_X0208-1983 JIS_X0208-1990 X0208 CSISO87JISX0208
ISO-IR-159 JIS_X0212 JIS_X0212-1990 JIS_X0212.1990-0 X0212 CSISO159JISX02121990
CN GB_1988-80 ISO-IR-57 ISO646-CN CSISO57GB1988
CHINESE GB_2312-80 ISO-IR-58 CSISO58GB231280
CN-GB-ISOIR165 ISO-IR-165
ISO-IR-149 KOREAN KSC_5601 KS_C_5601-1987 KS_C_5601-1989 CSKSC56011987
EUC-JP EUCJP EXTENDED_UNIX_CODE_PACKED_FORMAT_FOR_JAPANESE CSEUCPKDFMTJAPANESE
MS_KANJI SHIFT-JIS SHIFT_JIS SJIS CSSHIFTJIS
CP932
ISO-2022-JP CSISO2022JP
ISO-2022-JP-1
ISO-2022-JP-2 CSISO2022JP2
CN-GB EUC-CN EUCCN GB2312 CSGB2312
GBK
CP936 MS936 WINDOWS-936
GB18030
ISO-2022-CN CSISO2022CN
ISO-2022-CN-EXT
HZ HZ-GB-2312
EUC-TW EUCTW CSEUCTW
BIG-5 BIG-FIVE BIG5 BIGFIVE CN-BIG5 CSBIG5
CP950
BIG5-HKSCS:1999
BIG5-HKSCS:2001
BIG5-HKSCS:2004
BIG5-HKSCS BIG5-HKSCS:2008 BIG5HKSCS
EUC-KR EUCKR CSEUCKR
CP949 UHC
CP1361 JOHAB
ISO-2022-KR CSISO2022KR
437 CP437 IBM437 CSPC8CODEPAGE437
CP737
CP775 IBM775 CSPC775BALTIC
852 CP852 IBM852 CSPCP852
CP853
855 CP855 IBM855 CSIBM855
857 CP857 IBM857 CSIBM857
CP858
860 CP860 IBM860 CSIBM860
861 CP-IS CP861 IBM861 CSIBM861
863 CP863 IBM863 CSIBM863
CP864 IBM864 CSIBM864
865 CP865 IBM865 CSIBM865
869 CP-GR CP869 IBM869 CSIBM869
CP1125
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