Converting text file to UTF-8 on Windows command prompt

I need to convert a text file to utf-8 format via windows command prompt. You can easily do this with PowerShell: Get-Content . SuperUserisaquestionandanswersiteforcomputerenthusiastsandpowerusers.Itonlytakesaminutetosignup. Signuptojointhiscommunity Anybodycanaskaquestion Anybodycananswer Thebestanswersarevotedupandrisetothetop Home Public Questions Tags Users Companies Unanswered Teams StackOverflowforTeams –Startcollaboratingandsharingorganizationalknowledge. CreateafreeTeam WhyTeams? Teams CreatefreeTeam Teams Q&Aforwork Connectandshareknowledgewithinasinglelocationthatisstructuredandeasytosearch. LearnmoreaboutTeams ConvertingtextfiletoUTF-8onWindowscommandprompt AskQuestion Asked 5years,9monthsago Modified 2monthsago Viewed 130ktimes 27 IneedtoconvertatextfiletoUTF-8formatviaWindowscommandprompt.ThisneedstobedoneonanothermachineandIdonothaverightstoinstallsoftwareonthatmachine.Ineedsomethinglike: c:\notepadsource-filetarget-file--encodingoption IsthereaWindowscommandpromptutilitywhichcandoit? windowscommand-lineutf-8 Share Improvethisquestion Follow editedJan5,2017at14:38 KamilMaciorowski 62k2222goldbadges112112silverbadges166166bronzebadges askedJan5,2017at13:58 user1107888user1107888 37311goldbadge33silverbadges44bronzebadges Addacomment  |  5Answers 5 Sortedby: Resettodefault Highestscore(default) Datemodified(newestfirst) Datecreated(oldestfirst) 44 Ineedtoconvertatextfiletoutf-8formatviawindowscommandprompt YoucaneasilydothiswithPowerShell: Get-Content.\test.txt|Set-Content-Encodingutf8test-utf8.txt FurtherReading Convertfrommostencodingstoutf8withpowershell Share Improvethisanswer Follow answeredJan5,2017at14:38 DavidPostill♦DavidPostill 146k7575goldbadges339339silverbadges374374bronzebadges 12 Additionally,youneedtoswitchtopowershellinordertoexecutethecommandandthenexitittogobacktowindowscommandprompt. – user1107888 Jan5,2017at16:09 1 @vibs2006UseaForEachloop.SeeForEach-PowerShell-SS64.com. – DavidPostill ♦ Jan28,2019at18:32 1 WillthismethodconverttoplainUTF-8orUTF-8-BOM? – CaleSweeney Oct23,2019at22:28 1 @JustMeSeemycommentabove-useaForEachloop – DavidPostill ♦ Aug1at16:51 1 @JustMeI'mnotgoingtodothatforyou. – DavidPostill ♦ Aug2at17:01  |  Show7morecomments 5 UseiconvfromGNUWin32pack.Itismuchfaster,especiallyifyourfilesareaboutormorethan1Gb. "C:\ProgramFiles(x86)\GnuWin32\bin\iconv.exe"-fcp1251-tutf-8source.txt>result.txt Share Improvethisanswer Follow editedFeb21,2018at15:56 KamilMaciorowski 62k2222goldbadges112112silverbadges166166bronzebadges answeredFeb21,2018at15:09 RaulN-kRaulN-k 5111silverbadge11bronzebadge 3 1 whatdoesthecp1251flagdo? – lacostenycoder Mar11,2019at16:50 2 it'stheinputencoding.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows-1251 – nadre May17,2019at8:57 1 Gitbashworksalso:iconv-fgb2312-tutf-8./s.txt>t.txt – ShawnXue May30,2020at4:47 Addacomment  |  2 Hereisforeachconvert*.textfileto*.sqlfile: foreach($fileinget-ChildItem*.txt){ Echo$file.name Get-Content$file|Set-Content-Encodingutf8("$file.name"+".sql") } Share Improvethisanswer Follow answeredMay20,2019at10:20 nobjta_9x_tqnobjta_9x_tq 12122bronzebadges 1 afterrunsomesqlfile,sometimeerror,Idecidedtousinglinuxwithiconvcommand=)) – nobjta_9x_tq May28,2019at15:46 Addacomment  |  1 Youcandothisfromthecommandpromptasfollows: powershell-command"Get-Content.\test.txt">test-utf8.txt Itturnsoutthatpipingtheoutputtoafilefromthecommandpromptsavesasutf-8. Share Improvethisanswer Follow answeredSep30,2020at20:49 GordHookerGordHooker 1111bronzebadge 1 butifIwanttoconvertmultiples.txtfiles,fromafolder+subfolders,whatisthecommand? – JustMe Aug1at14:15 Addacomment  |  0 POWERSHELL:#AssumesWindowsPowerShell,use-Encodingutf8BOMwithPowerShellCore.Formultiplefiles: FIRSTSOLUTION: $files=Get-ChildItemc:\Folder1\-Filter*.txt foreach($filein$files){ Get-Content$file.FullName|Set-Content"E:\Temp\Destination\$($file.Name)"-Encodingutf8BOM } OR,SECONDSOLUTION(formultiplefiles): get-itemC:\Folder1*.*|foreach-object{get-content-Encodingutf8BOM$_|out-file("C:\Folder1"+$_.Name)-encodingdefault} OR,THETHIRDSOLUTION:(onlyfor2files) $a="C:/Folder1/TEST_ro.txt" $b="C:/Folder1/TEST_ro-2.txt" (Get-Content-path$a)|Set-Content-EncodingUTF8BOM-Path$b Share Improvethisanswer Follow answeredAug1at14:19 JustMeJustMe 75677silverbadges3030bronzebadges Addacomment  |  YourAnswer ThanksforcontributingananswertoSuperUser!Pleasebesuretoanswerthequestion.Providedetailsandshareyourresearch!Butavoid…Askingforhelp,clarification,orrespondingtootheranswers.Makingstatementsbasedonopinion;backthemupwithreferencesorpersonalexperience.Tolearnmore,seeourtipsonwritinggreatanswers. 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