Notepad++ convert to UTF-8 multiple files
Solution 1
Got my mistake. My notepad is in german. So take care if it's called "Encoding" or in my case "Kodierung" and "Convert to UTF-8 without BOM" is "Konvertiere zu UTF-8 ohne BOM"
That helped me out!
Solution 2
Here is what worked for me:
Go to Notepad++ -> Plugins -> Plugins Admin.
Find and install Python Script plugin.
Create new python script with Plugins -> Python Script -> New script.
Insert this code into your script:
import os;
import sys;
filePathSrc="C:\\Users\\YourUsername\\Desktop\\txtFolder"
for root, dirs, files in os.walk(filePathSrc):
for fn in files:
if fn[-4:] == '.txt' or fn[-4:] == '.csv':
notepad.open(root + "\\" + fn)
console.write(root + "\\" + fn + "\r\n")
notepad.runMenuCommand("Encoding", "Convert to UTF-8")
notepad.save()
notepad.close()
Replace C:\\Users\\YourUsername\\Desktop\\txtFolder
with path to your Windows folder where your files are.
Script works with .txt
and .csv
files and ignores all other files in folder.
Run script with Plugins -> Python Scripts -> Scripts -> name of your script
Phil
Updated on June 05, 2022Comments
-
Phil about 2 years
The function "Convert to UTF-8 without BOM" of Notepad++ is really nice. But I have 200 files and all of them need to be coverted. Therefor I found this little python script:
import os; import sys; filePathSrc="C:\\Temp\\UTF8" for root, dirs, files in os.walk(filePathSrc): for fn in files: if fn[-4:] != '.jar' and fn[-5:] != '.ear' and fn[-4:] != '.gif' and fn[-4:] != '.jpg' and fn[-5:] != '.jpeg' and fn[-4:] != '.xls' and fn[-4:] != '.GIF' and fn[-4:] != '.JPG' and fn[-5:] != '.JPEG' and fn[-4:] != '.XLS' and fn[-4:] != '.PNG' and fn[-4:] != '.png' and fn[-4:] != '.cab' and fn[-4:] != '.CAB' and fn[-4:] != '.ico': notepad.open(root + "\\" + fn) console.write(root + "\\" + fn + "\r\n") notepad.runMenuCommand("Encoding", "Convert to UTF-8 without BOM") notepad.save() notepad.close()
It goes through every file -> I can see this. But after it finished, the charset is stil ANSI in my case :/
Can anyone help me?