hop-user-manual/modules/ROOT/pages/plugins/transforms/changefileencoding.adoc

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= Change file encoding

== Description

This transform changes a text file from one encoding to another. 

== Options


* Transform name : the name of the transform, unique in a pipeline
* Source file
  ** Filename field : the name of the input field which will carry the file names at runtime
  ** Source encoding: the encoding of the text files
  ** Add source filename to the result filenames? : Check this if you want to add the source file(s) automatically to the files list of the result of the pipeline.
* Target file
  ** Target filename field: the name of the input field which will contain the target (output) file name at runtime
  ** Create parent folder: checking this field automatically creates the output folder specified in the target filename field.
  ** Target encoding: you can select the target encoding here
  ** Add target filename to the result filenames? : Check this if you want to add the target file(s) automatically to the files list of the result of the pipeline.