Question

I am trying to loop through a directory and for ever text file that I find, convert the encoding to UTF-8 Fromat.

Answer 1

Use DirectoryInfo and you’re pretty much done

DirectoryInfo DI = new DirectoryInfo("TextFiles_Path");
FileInfo[] Files = DI.GetFiles("*.txt");
foreach(FileInfo Fl in Files)
{
    StreamReader SR = Fl.OpenText(); //This opens a stream to the file **in UTF8 encoding**
    StreamWriter SW = new StreamWriter(new FileStream(Fl.FullName + ".UTF8.txt", FileMode.OpenOrCreate), Encoding.UTF8);
    SW.Write(SR.ReadToEnd());
}

Enjoy