Question

I have a file that is in Unicode 16. Or in Notepad when I go to File > Save As … Notepad just reads the file as UNICODE. My other options are UTF 8, UNICODE, and TXT. I have been having to manually re-save this file as a UTF 8 in Notepad.

Is there any way to have C# do this for me?

Thanks,

Jake

Answer 1

ex. ConsoleApplication

using System;
using System.IO;
using System.Text;

class ConvertUTF16toUTF8 {
    static int Main(string[] argv){
        if(argv.Length != 2){
            Console.WriteLine("conv InputFilePath OutputFilePath");
            return -1;
        }
        File.WriteAllText(argv[1], File.ReadAllText(argv[0], Encoding.Unicode), Encoding.UTF8);
        return 0;
    }
}