I’ve a file that was written on windows with encoding WINDOWS-1256, and I need to write a C program that reads bytes from this file and write them back to a new file with UTF-8 encoding.
How to read a file with a specific encoding in C ??
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I’ve a file that was written on windows with encoding WINDOWS-1256, and I need to write a C program that reads bytes from this file and write them back to a new file with UTF-8 encoding.
How to read a file with a specific encoding in C ??
Other than text mode and binary mode, there is no way to directly read specific encodings with C with standard API.
You would open the file as binary and read it in. Then you can use a library like libiconv to do the encoding / decoding of specific formats.