• Adding the -u switch will give you a Windows Unicode (i.e. UCS-2) file. To get to UTF-8 you'll have to enlist the help of some other tool. Why do you need UTF-8? It's not native for Windows, UCS-2 (subset of UTF-16LE) is native.

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