Transformer Version: 0.5.0 JDK version: openjdk 11.0.12 OS: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.4 Specify a text file such as java or xml which isn't encoded in UTF-8 (for example, Shift_JIS) as the conversion ...

A proposed solution: eutf8 (escaped UTF-8) encoded data is guaranteed to be valid UTF-8 (which is not true of arbitrary binary data), such that it can be decoded to unicode text using a UTF-8 decoder ...

ANSI and UTF-8 are two types of text encoding. The former is the default encoding that is used when you save text files created in Notepad, the text editor included in the Windows operating system.