Transparent ANSI to UTF-8 conversion

[Era Scarecrow]

On Wednesday, 27 February 2013 at 10:56:16 UTC, Lubos Pintes 
wrote:
> Hi,
> I would like to transparently convert from ANSI to UTF-8 when 
> dealing with text files. For example here in Slovakia, 
> virtually every text file is in Windows-1250. If someone opens 
> a text file, he or she expects that it will work properly. So I 
> suppose, that it is not feasible to tell someone "if you want 
> to use my program, please convert every text to UTF-8".

  A while back I wrote a little code that effectively does that, 
mind you it's probably not the right specific encoding, however 
you should be able to find the code points and replace them. I 
think this was for iso-8859-1.

See "Reading ASCII file with some codes above 127 (exten ascii)"

http://forum.dlang.org/thread/lehgyzmwewgvkdgraizv@forum.dlang.org