How to convert from an encoding to UTF-8 in Go?

Question

I\'m working on a project where I need to convert text from an encoding (for example Windows-1256 Arabic) to UTF-8.

How do I do this in Go?

Answer 1

I made a tool for myself, maybe you could borrow some idea from it :)

https://github.com/gonejack/transcode

This is the key code:

_, err = io.Copy(
    transform.NewWriter(output, targetEncoding.NewEncoder()),
    transform.NewReader(input, sourceEncoding.NewDecoder()),
)