ASCII to UTF8 Conversion of flat files

try this:

http://www.parallelgraphics.com/products/cortona/utfconverter/

Thanks, but are there any - sources recommendations about writting C / Java / VB to convert ACSII to UTF8?

How can an ASCII file contain Kanji ?

Such characters requre a Unicode variant - such as UTF-8. It's more likely that the file is encoded in ISO-10646 or something.

Are you able to identify which one?

There's also a program called 'iconv'. It converts from many charsets to many. But there will sure be specific japanese charcode converters around..

On windows, the plain file is probably in Shift-Jis (SJIS) format. If not, try JIS or EUC-JP.

The great and free JWPCE editor will probably be able to open it anyway.. from that you can save to many format.
http://www.physics.ucla.edu/~grosenth/c_main.html#DOWNLOAD

Thanks to all for your input.

How ASCII contains Kanji?

Here is an extract of the file I'm working with. The code characters are Kanji.

0836KM0ZDM•Û‘SŠÇ—‚R‚O‚O†’n
0836KM0ZNAŒv‘••Û‘S‚Q•ªÍŒv
0836KM0DLE“d‹C•Û‘S
0836KM0FDFƒIƒtƒTƒCƒg•Û‘S
0836KM0FCN‘•’u•Û‘S‚R‚O‚O†’n
0836KM0IXP‹ZpŒŸ¸‚R‚O‚O†’n

This file comes in as .txt format. I guess my first question is how does one tell what is this file encoded in ASCII, UNICODE or what and then how can I feed this file through a program that will produce a UTF8 output. I do not care to see printable charatcers as long as it is in UTF8. My goal is to then feed the file into an application to process the data.

I am using Delphi where u can use the function UTF8toAnsi function. Hope this helps u.