Change Encoding Dynamic Action

About

The Change Encoding Action is a powerful workflow tool used to convert the encoding format of text files from one character set to another. Encoding defines how characters are stored and displayed in files, and this action ensures that the correct encoding is applied, which is critical when transferring data between systems, applications, or platforms that use different encoding standards.

Supported Encodings

Full Unicode

• UTF-8
• UCS-2, UCS-2BE, UCS-2LE
• UCS-4, UCS-4BE, UCS-4LE
• UTF-16, UTF-16BE, UTF-16LE
• UTF-32, UTF-32BE, UTF-32LE
• UTF-7

European Languages

• ASCII
• ISO-8859-{1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 9, 10, 13, 14, 15, 16}
• KOI8-R, KOI8-U, KOI8-RU
• Windows-{1250, 1251, 1252, 1253, 1254, 1257, 1131}
• CP{437, 737, 775, 850, 852, 853, 855, 857, 858, 860, 861, 863, 865, 866, 869, 1125}
• Mac{Roman, CentralEurope, Iceland, Croatian, RomaniaCyrillic, Ukraine, Greek, Turkish}

Semitic Languages

• ISO-8859-{6, 8}
• CP{255, 1256}
• CP{862, 864}
• Mac{Hebrew, Arabic}

Japanese

• EUC-JP
• SHIFT_JIS
• P932
• ISO-2022-JP, ISO-2022-JP-1, ISO-2022-JP-2, ISO-2022-JP-3
• EUC-JISX0213
• Shift_JISX0213

Chinese

• EUC-CN
• HZ, GBK
• GBK, CP936
• GB18030
• EUC-TW
• BIG5, BIG5-HKSCS, BIG5-HKSCS:2004, BIG5-HKSCS:1999, BIG5-HKSCS:2001, BIG5-2003 (experimental)
• CP950
• ISO-2022-CN, ISO-2022-CN-EXT

Korean

• EUC-KR
• CP949
• ISO-2022-KR
• JOHAB

Armenian

• ARMSCII-8

Georgian

• Georgian-Academy
• Georgian-PS

Tajik

• KOI8-T

Kazakh

• PT154
• RK1048

Thai

• ISO-8859-11
• TIS-620
• CP874
• MacThai

Laotian

• MuleLao-1
• CP1133

Vietnamese

• VISCII
• TCVN
• CP1258

Platform specifics

• ATARIST
• HP-ROMAN8
• NEXTSTEP
• RISCOS-LATIN1

Turkmen

• TDS565

Other

• C99
• JAVA

Metadata tab

1. The Write Variables option ensures that the “Package Action” logs the variable values into the “Action vars before log file” before the action is executed and logs the updated variable values into the “Action vars after log file” after the action completes.
2. This option is typically used for debugging and is not recommended in a production environment.
3. It can be globally disabled through the options dialog .

Parameters tab

N Value Parameter

The meaning of N Value parameter depends on Which File Parameter

1. When Which File Parameter is equal to “Files Not Older Than N Days” N Value is Days
2. When Which File Parameter is equal to “Files Older Than N Days” N Value is Days
3. When Which File Parameter is equal to “First N Found Files” N Value file number
4. When Which File Parameter is equal to “Bigger Than N Bytes” N Value is byte

Variables tab

The Variables tab defines which variables are updated during the execution of the action.

Execution log tab

The Execution Log tab is populated after the action has been executed. Double-click a row to view the detailed execution log.

Related Actions

1. Compare Files Action
2. Check File Action
3. File Meta Data Action
4. Copy Files Action
5. Copy File Action
6. Move File Action
7. Rename File Action
8. Delete File Action
9. Keep File Action
10. Merge File Action
11. Change File Attributes Action
12. Files List Action
13. Replace String Action
14. Open File Action
15. Encrypt Action
16. Decrypt Action

Useful Links

• Debugging Actions
• Working With Variables

Video Tutorial