PhpStorm: Converting folders encoding to another

Question

I have project, where are lots of files in ISO-8859-15 and I need to convert them to UTF-8. If I change one file, it asks "Do you want to convert - plaplapla", if I say yes, important symbols wont become ???.

However, since my project file amount is HUGE, I cannot do that one by one. Changing encoding settings from project settings, it might change encoding to utf-8 but all the symbols will become ??? (thus no conversion).

So, how can I tell PhpStorm to convert all files into utf-8? Is it possible and if yes, how? What is the alternative method?

Answer 1

AFAIK it's not possible to do this for whole folder at a time .. but it can be done for multiple files (e.g. all files in certain folder):

1. Select desired files in Project View panel
2. Use File | File Encoding
3. When asked -- make sure you choose "convert" and not just "read in another encoding".

You can repeat this procedure for each subfolder (still much faster than doing this for each file individually).

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Another possible alternative is to use something like iconv (or any other similar tool) and do it in terminal/console.