If you're like us, you certainly have to work on international projects, or projects involving foreign languages and character sets. Handling many of these can be quite a nightmare, if you don't have the right tools. Hopefully, from time to time, you find on the web some fine gems that make your life easier...

Benjamin Kalytta has released a nifty little free utility called Character Set Converter, and it does — perfectly — what's it's supposed to do: convert character sets. Many of them.

Character Set Converter will, as the name suggests, modify the character set in the text document of your choice. This can be a web page (.(x)htm(l), .php, .asp, .xml, .jsp, ...) or a more generic document (.txt, .csv, .ini, .bat, .c, .java, .sql, ...). If can also change the XML header or the META CHARSET tag if they're found, and it also lets you specify the document encoding (DOS, MAC or UNIX) which is useful if you share files between the three environments. Finally, the app can also be invoked from the command line, which is perfect for batch processing.

Character Set Converter supports the following sets: ISO-8859-1, ISO-8859-2, ISO-8859-3, ISO-8859-4, ISO-8859-5, ISO-8859-6, ISO-8859-7, ISO-8859-8, ISO-8859-9, ISO-8859-10, ISO-8859-11, ISO-8859-12, ISO-8859-13, ISO-8859-14, ISO-8859-15, Windows-874, Windows-1250, Windows-1251, Windows-1252, Windows-1253, Windows-1254, Windows-1255, Windows-1256, Windows-1257, Windows-1258, DOS-437, DOS-737, DOS-775, DOS-850, DOS-852, DOS-855, DOS-857, DOS-860, DOS-861, DOS-862, DOS-863, DOS-864, DOS-865, DOS-866, DOS-869, DOS-874, MSMAC-CYRILLIC, MSMAC-GREEK, MSMAC-ICELAND, MSMAC-LATIN2, MSMAC-ROMAN, MSMAC-TURKISH, Apple-CENTEURO, Apple-Roman, UTF-8, UTF-16, UTF-16BE.

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