Batch file to covert unicode text to Ansi text

Question

How can I convert a directory of pre-existing text from Unicode to ANSI with a batch file? Is there some tool that I can use to loop through the files and perform the conversion?

Answer 1

See https://superuser.com/questions/27060/batch-convert-files-for-encoding-or-line-ending. Specifically, iconv looks exactly like what you're looking for.

You're looking for the reverse of the example posted there, so you'd want something like this:

$ iconv -f utf-8 -t windows-1252 infile > outfile