(PHP Extension) Convert a Text File from utf-8 to Windows-1252

Convert a text file from one character encoding to another.

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<?php

// The version number (9_5_0) should match version of the Chilkat extension used, omitting the micro-version number.
// For example, if using Chilkat v9.5.0.48, then include as shown here:
include("chilkat_9_5_0.php");

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

$sb = new CkStringBuilder();

// In this case, my test file has some norwegian chars in the utf-8 encoding
$success = $sb->LoadFile('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 = $sb->WriteFile('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.

?>