Windows console application for file text encoding conversion

I thought it would be a simple task to change the encoding of a text file via a batch file in the Windows console and at the same time remove or add the BOM. But I found that even after extensive searching, I couldn't find a reasonable solution.

So I fired up my trusty Delphi and wrote a little console application myself that does exactly what I want.

I'm sure it will be a useful tool for someone else too and so I'm releasing it here as an open source project.

Download the binary from the releases section and extract it to any folder. The application has no dependencies so you can run it out of the box (that is the beauty of Delphi :-)).

If you call the CharManiac.exe from the console you get the following instructions:

CharManiac SourceEncoding TargetEncoding SourceFile TargetFile
Possible text encodings:
 ASCII
 ANSI
 UTF-8(-BOM)
 Unicode(-BOM)

Optional newline config, append to TargetEncoding:
 -UnixNewLine
 -WindowsNewLine

Examples for valid encodings:
 UTF-8-UnixNewLine
 Unicode-BOM-WindowsNewLine

Warning: TargetFile will be overwritten.

CharManiac.exe UTF-8 UTF-8-BOM SourceFileWithoutBOM.txt TargetFileWithBOM.txt

CharManiac.exe UTF-8-BOM UTF-8 SourceFileWithBOM.txt TargetFileWithoutBOM.txt

CharManiac.exe ANSI UTF-8-BOM SourceAnsi.txt TargetUTF-8-BOM.txt

CharManiac.exe Unicode UTF-8-BOM SourceUTF-16.txt TargetUTF-8-BOM.txt