(Delphi DLL) Convert a Text File from utf-8 to Windows-1252

Convert a text file from one character encoding to another.

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uses
    Winapi.Windows, Winapi.Messages, System.SysUtils, System.Variants, System.Classes, Vcl.Graphics,
    Vcl.Controls, Vcl.Forms, Vcl.Dialogs, Vcl.StdCtrls, StringBuilder;

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procedure TForm1.Button1Click(Sender: TObject);
var
sb: HCkStringBuilder;
success: Boolean;

begin
// It's really simple:  Just load from one charset, save using another.

sb := CkStringBuilder_Create();

// In this case, my test file has some norwegian chars in the utf-8 encoding
success := CkStringBuilder_LoadFile(sb,'qa_data/txt/norwegian_chars.txt','utf-8');

// We could just as well write over the file we just read in.
// (But I don't want to do that for my example..)
success := CkStringBuilder_WriteFile(sb,'qa_output/norwegian_chars.txt','windows-1252',False);

// Note:  Windows-1252 is a 1-byte per char encoding, which means it's only capable of representing
// those chars in Western European languages.   See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows-1252
// 
// utf-8 is an encoding that can handle chars in any language, including Chinese, Korean, Japanese, Arabic, Hebrew, Greek, etc.
// If a text file contains chars in these other languages, obviously it cannot be converted to windows-1252 because
// there are only 256 chars that can possibly be represented in a 1-byte per char encoding.

CkStringBuilder_Dispose(sb);

end;