Convert ISO-8859-1 to UTF-8 using groovy

Question

i need to convert a ISO-8859-1 file to utf-8 encoding, without loosing content intormations...

i have a file which looks like this:

Answer 1

Making it a little more Groovy, and not requiring the whole file to fit in memory, you can use the readers and writers to stream the file. This was my solution when I had files too big for plain old Unix iconv(1).

new FileOutputStream('out.txt').withWriter('UTF-8') { writer ->
    new FileInputStream('in.txt').withReader('ISO-8859-1') { reader ->
        writer << reader
    }
}

• http://www.hjsoft.com/blog/link/A_Useful_Example_in_Java_Ruby_and_Groovy