title: Convert from ANSI to UTF-8
body: <p><br>
  I have around 600,000 files encoded in <code>ANSI</code> and I want to convert them to <code>UTF-8</code>. I can do that individually in <code>NOTEPAD++</code>, but i can't do that for 600,000 files.Can i do this in <code>R</code> or <code>Python</code>?</p>
  
  <p>I have found this link but the <code>Python</code> script is not running:
  <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/7256049/notepad-converting-ansi-encoded-file-to-utf-8">notepad++ converting ansi encoded file to utf-8</a></p>