PhpStorm: Converting folders encoding to another

Question

I have project, where are lots of files in ISO-8859-15 and I need to convert them to UTF-8. If I change one file, it asks "Do you want to convert - plaplapla", if I say yes, important symbols wont become ???.

However, since my project file amount is HUGE, I cannot do that one by one. Changing encoding settings from project settings, it might change encoding to utf-8 but all the symbols will become ??? (thus no conversion).

So, how can I tell PhpStorm to convert all files into utf-8? Is it possible and if yes, how? What is the alternative method?

LazyOne · Accepted Answer · 2015-05-21 10:45:11Z

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AFAIK it's not possible to do this for whole folder at a time .. but it can be done for multiple files (e.g. all files in certain folder):

Select desired files in Project View panel
Use File | File Encoding
When asked -- make sure you choose "convert" and not just "read in another encoding".

You can repeat this procedure for each subfolder (still much faster than doing this for each file individually).

Another possible alternative is to use something like iconv (or any other similar tool) and do it in terminal/console.

answered May 21, 2015 at 10:45

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Elven Over a year ago

So, if it doesn't anything, it means it doesn't need convertion? Either way, thank you, I guess this is as close as I can get.

Delphine Over a year ago

If encoding has to be "forced" multiselection does not work.. I have to select file by file..

LazyOne Over a year ago

@Delphine Did not had such cases myself so cannot give any comments (I rarely need to convert encodings -- using UTF-8 everywhere). But if it needs to be confirmed ("forced") then I guess you are right and it has to be one by one (which is inconvenient for sure if many files are affected).

topplefree · Accepted Answer · 2016-03-02 09:06:46Z

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Watch out when opening the file inPHPStorm that you want to convert. In my case all the files were still encoded in ISO-8859 but opened in UTF-8 resulting in misspelled umlauts i.e. In this case direct conversion to UTF-8 is not possible.

If you encounter this do following:

Open the ISO-8859 file
Change file encoding dropdown (lower right corner) to ISO-8859-1 or ISO-8859-15 and choose REOPEN
Misspellings will now disappear
Then change the encoding again (dropdown lower right corner), this time to UTF-8 and choose CONVERT
Now the file is properly encoded in UTF-8

cheers

edited Mar 2, 2016 at 9:06

answered Mar 2, 2016 at 9:01

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