sutf1

Usage

Overview

sutf converts the encoding of text files from one encoding to another using the high-performance simdutf library for supported formats. For unsupported formats, it falls back to iconv if available.

Options

-f, --from-code=ENCODING

Encoding of source text (mandatory).

-t, --to-code=ENCODING

Encoding of output (mandatory).

-o, --output=FILE

Output file. If not specified, output goes to standard output.

-h, --help

Display help text and exit.

-u, --usage

Display short usage message and exit.

-l, --list

Display supported formats and exit.

Supported formats

Formats supported by simdutf library: UTF-8, UTF-16LE, UTF-16BE, UTF-32LE

If iconv is available, additional formats supported by iconv are also available.

Examples

Convert UTF-16LE file to UTF-8:

sutf -f UTF-16LE -t UTF-8 input.txt

Convert multiple files and save to output file:

sutf -f UTF-8 -t UTF-16BE -o output.txt file1.txt file2.txt

List supported formats:

sutf --list