From a .NET Core 2.2 project, I had to install via Nuget the following two packages: (System.Text.Encoding & System.Text.Encoding.CodePages) Then you have to set it before the use of libraries: using System.Text; … { Encoding.RegisterProvider(CodePagesEncodingProvider.Instance); … }
CP1252 cannot represent ā; your input contains the similar character â. repr just displays an ASCII representation of a unicode string in Python 2.x: >>> print(repr(b’J\xe2nis’.decode(‘cp1252′))) u’J\xe2nis’ >>> print(b’J\xe2nis’.decode(‘cp1252’)) Jânis
I’d like to answer this in a more web-like manner and in order to answer it so we need a little history. Joel Spolsky has written a very good introductionary article on the absolute minimum every dev should know on Unicode Character Encoding. Bear with me here because this is going to be somewhat of … Read more
iconv -f WINDOWS-1252 -t UTF-8 filename.txt
To do this, you need to register the CodePagesEncodingProvider instance from the System.Text.Encoding.CodePages package. To do that, install the System.Text.Encoding.CodePages package: dotnet add package System.Text.Encoding.CodePages Then (after implicitly or explicitly running dotnet restore) you can call: Encoding.RegisterProvider(CodePagesEncodingProvider.Instance); var enc1252 = Encoding.GetEncoding(1252); Alternatively, if you only need that one code page, you can get it directly, … Read more