Hi, If you are just converting text file's content, iconv should do it correctly for you. Regards, Leon On Thursday 30 June 2005 20:23, khazaee wrote: > hello all. > I want to change the character set of a text file from CP1256 to UTF8, > which one is better? : > 1) use of high level library like icu or iconv from glibc. > 2) low level transformation and use of wchar_t data type,(byte by byte) > i mean does icu library or iconv functions do that perfectly? > Or > do you have any ideas? > regards! > H.khazaee >