dos2utf8

Convert DOS CP437 text to UTF-8 with cognate codepoints.

Install

npm build && npm i -g .

…from local, or

npm i -g dos2utf8

…from NPMJS.

Usage

dos2utf8 input_file >output_file

What It Does

It converts special characters in DOS text files to UTF-8 using cognates, e.g.

  CP437 0xdc is a lower half block (▄ u+2584), coded as bytes 0xe2 0x96 0x84.

Good for e.g. lifting older text files from https://www.srrdb.com/ into the future.

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