From: "Chan Fook Sheng" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > I am looking for unicode, utf-8 coonversion tools for windows platform, > but can't find any on the web. > > can anyone direct me to some links? > > for example: the "/" character is 47 in decimal, 2F in hex. > > it can be represented in UTF-8 format as: > 1 byte: still 2F > 2 bytes: C0 AF (illegal) > 3 bytes: E0 80 AF (illegal)
Thanks for keeping the indication that the last two are illegal with UTF-8. But you should have better never listed them (even if there still exists some legacy converters that will accept them, no one should generate them). Note also that UTF-8 encoded sequences can be up to 5 bytes long... A free converter tool exists in the Java SDK for Windows: look for "native2ascii". Also, GNU tools are ported to Windows (see "recode") or within Unix emulation layers for Windows (see also "recode" in Cygwin, or in the AT&T Korn Shell tools for Windows). But Windows 2000/XP also has such a basic tool bundled in the standard installation: Notepad (however it's not made to be automated in scripts, unlike "native2ascii" or "recode".)
