Utility for converting Shift-JIS encoded files to UTF-8 encoded files

Question

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?

this would be better suited on https://softwarerecs.stackexchange.com/ — phuclv, Aug 26 '18 at 11:28

score 4 · Accepted Answer · answered Apr 01 '11 at 16:03

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

answered Apr 01 '11 at 16:03

Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams

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iconv -f SHIFT-JIS -t UTF8 -c -o – Nicolas Raoul Oct 20 '11 at 06:32

score 0 · Answer 2 · edited Jun 12 '20 at 13:48

ConvertZ is also a good free alternative

ConvertZ is a Chinese/Japanese code converter.

Features:

Supported file (plain text) and clipboard conversion among the following encodings: big5, gbk, hz, shift-jis, jis, euc-jp, unicode big-endian, unicode little-endian, and utf-8.

Batch files conversion

Preview before actual conversion.

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Utility for converting Shift-JIS encoded files to UTF-8 encoded files

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ConvertZ is a Chinese/Japanese code converter.