Convert UTF-16 to UTF-8 under Windows and Linux, in C

Question

I was wondering if there is a recommended \'cross\' Windows and Linux method for the purpose of converting strings from UTF-16LE to UTF-8? or one should use different method

Answer 1

If you have MSYS2 installed then the iconv package (which is installed by default) lets you use:

 iconv -f utf-16le -t utf-8 output.txt