Charco

Just like writing has different style, characters, and forms, so does computer text can come under a variety of encoding forms. Depending on the tools used, you might run into some issues if trying to process different encodings. However, you can use applications like Charco in order to convert entire documents to different encodings.

A cool thing is that you don’t even need to go through a setup process to make the application work. This means that it’s good to go from the moment download is done, and you can even carry it around on a thumb drive in case you ever want to use it on the spot, on other computers, without affecting registry entries.

The window you work in is pretty intuitive, with a description field to let individuals of all levels of experience quickly get the hang of things, as well as a couple of drop-down menus to select the input and output types. What’s more, there’s also a batch mode to process multiple files at a time, but you first need to set the input and output values.

Truth be told, the application can process quite the variety of encoding options, ranging from UTF, Windows ANSI, to Big5, DOS, and a lot more. The operation takes little time to finish, and the original file remains intact, even when in batch processing mode.

As far as file support goes, you can load just about anything found under formats like TXT, HTM, HTML, CSV, TXT, CSV, and ASC, and this is available for both input and output. For a faster trigger of the operation, you can assign a hotkey command to the program’s shortcut to launch it regardless of location.

Taking everything into consideration, we can say that Charco is a pretty neat application which is sure to aid in converting a whole variety of text documents, especially useful in programming. Multiple types of encoding options are supported, and you can even process more files at a time.