File Encoding Convert

Mac OS X comes with iconv utility that can convert text between encodings. Run the following command in Terminal to convert a gb2312 chinese text file to utf-8:

iconv -f GB2312 -t UTF-8 chinese-gb2312.txt > chinese-utf8.txt

To list the encodings that iconv supports:

iconv -l

Break Line Convert

brew install unix2dos

unix2dos file-to-convert

dos2unix file-to-convert