The following instruction applies to Windows based computers.
The easy way:
1. Download the language file(s) you want to convert in UTF-8. Please make sure that it is not already in UTF.
2. Place the file(s) you want to convert in a separate directory.
3. Download this tool, unzip and run the executable file.
4. Choose the path to the directory.
5. Add all file extensions (i.e. .php)
6. Run the tool.
7. Open all files with editor that supports UTF-8 without BOM (like Notepad++) and change the line where the encoding is set to “UTF-8”. Basically this is the tag:
so change it to:DEFINE('_ISO','charset=SOMETHING');
8. Save the file.DEFINE('_ISO','charset=UTF-8');
That’s it.
The hard way:
1. Download the language file(s) you want to convert in UTF-8. Please make sure that it is not already in UTF.
2. Open the file with editor that supports UTF-8 without BOM (like Notepad++). Please make sure that your operating system supports the original ASCII encoding. That means, when you open the file, the data inside should be 100% readable. If not, please proceed to the “easy way”.
3. Select all the content of the file and cut it.
4. Go to “Format” (In Notepad++) and place a tick on UTF-8 without BOM.
5. Paste the cut content.
6. Save the file. It is expected everything to be readable.
7. Open the file with editor that supports UTF-8 without BOM (like Notepad++) and change the line where the encoding is set to “UTF-8”. Basically this is the tag:
so change it to:DEFINE('_ISO','charset=SOMETHING');
8. Save the file.DEFINE('_ISO','charset=UTF-8');
