VB6/VBScript change file encoding to ansi

Question

I am looking for a way to convert a textfile with UTF8 encoding to ANSI encoding.

How can i go around and achieve this in Visual Basic (VB6) and or vbscript?

Answer 1

@Bob77's answer did not work for me, so I converted @Ciove's answer to a simple sub routine and it works fine.

' Usage: 
' EncodeFile strInFile, "UTF-8", strOutFile, "Windows-1254", 2
Sub EncodeFile(strInputFile, strInputCharset, strOutputFile, strOutputCharset, intOverwriteMode)

    '5th parameter may take the following values:
    'Const adSaveCreateOverWrite = 2
    'Const adSaveCreateNotExist = 1

    Const adReadLine = -2
    Const adTypeBinary = 1
    Const adTypeText = 2
    Const adWriteLine = 1

    Set objInputStream = CreateObject("ADODB.Stream")
    Set objOutputStream = CreateObject("ADODB.Stream")

    With objInputStream
      .Open
      .Type = adTypeBinary
      .LoadFromFile strInputFile
      .Type = adTypeText
      .Charset = strInputCharset
      objOutputStream.Open
      objOutputStream.Charset = strOutputCharset
      Do While .EOS <> True
         strText = .ReadText(adReadLine)
         objOutputStream.WriteText strText, adWriteLine
      Loop
      .Close
    End With
    objOutputStream.SaveToFile strOutputFile, intOverwriteMode
    objOutputStream.Close
End Sub