Convert To and From Unicode

What is TextPipe?

TextPipe™ has more than 150 inbuilt Unicode conversion filters, both TO and FROM various encoding formats (a total of about 300 filters).

For a complete list of Unicode filters, click here (opens in new window).

Is My Input File Unicode?

Simply drag the file to TextPipe's File Grid, then right-click it and choose 'Analyze File'.

If the display says 'Unicode Encoding...' then your file is Unicode. However, there are 3 major formats to Unicode (UTF-8, UTF-16 and UTF-32), and variants on the last two (-LE and -BE variants). Most likely, you'll need TextPipe to convert your file to or from UTF-8 for Web pages, and to or from UTF-16LE for Windows files.

Example 1 - Convert UTF-8 to ANSI

To convert UTF-8 text files to ANSI (while still taking national character sets into account):

1. Double-click Filters\Unicode\Convert to and from Unicode
2. Set the FROM format to UTF-8
3. Set the TO format to ANSI
4. Drag and drop the files to convert onto the Files to Process Grid
5. Click Go at the base of TextPipe's window

Example 2 - Convert ASCII to Unicode

1. Double-click Filters\Unicode\Convert to and from Unicode
2. Set the FROM format to ASCII
3. Set the TO format to the form of Unicode you need (UTF-8, UTF-7, UTF-16BE, UTF-32LE, UCS-2, UCS-4 etc)
4. Drag and drop the files to convert onto the Files to Process Grid
5. Click Go at the base of TextPipe's window

Like us...you'll find yourself using TextPipe again and again for all kinds of text-processing tasks.

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