# About copy with outputencoding
**URL:** https://www.finalbuilder.com/forums/t/about-copy-with-outputencoding/1981
**Category:** Discussion
**Created:** [May 3, 2012, 6:59am UTC](https://www.finalbuilder.com/forums/t/about-copy-with-outputencoding/1981 "2012-05-03T06:59:43Z")
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### Author:  [@deleted\_user](https://www.finalbuilder.com/forums/u/deleted_user)
#### Post date: [May 3, 2012, 6:59am UTC](https://www.finalbuilder.com/forums/t/about-copy-with-outputencoding/1981/1 "2012-05-03T06:59:43Z")
Hello,
I'm a customer of the FinalBuilder 6. Currently i'm migrating one java project from Ant to use the FinalBuilder solution.
I'm almost finished the process of generate a version of our product. The thing is: we have a UTF-8 version and a ISO-8859-1 version of our product.
In ant, we use, for example:
[code]
[/code]
In finalbuilder, i have 4 options to copy:
Using "Copy" or "XCopy" or "Robocopy" or "FileSet Copy" (defining a Fileset previously).
The thing is: in neither options, i have options to specify the outputencoding as ant does.
Anyone have a solution for me ?
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### Author:  [@Vincent](https://www.finalbuilder.com/forums/u/Vincent)
#### Post date: [May 4, 2012, 3:03am UTC](https://www.finalbuilder.com/forums/t/about-copy-with-outputencoding/1981/2 "2012-05-04T03:03:08Z")
None of the file copying code in FinalBuilder actually opens the file and re-encodes it. Since changing the encoding on an xml file is not as simple as loading and saving you would need to create a custom action to do this.
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### Author:  [@deleted\_user](https://www.finalbuilder.com/forums/u/deleted_user)
#### Post date: [May 4, 2012, 2:06am UTC](https://www.finalbuilder.com/forums/t/about-copy-with-outputencoding/1981/3 "2012-05-04T02:06:40Z")
> Posted By Vincent Parrett on 03 May 2012 08:03 PM
> None of the file copying code in FinalBuilder actually opens the file and re-encodes it. Since changing the encoding on an xml file is not as simple as loading and saving you would need to create a custom action to do this.
Hello Vincent,
Yes, i know what you mean... Do you know any tool that can do that for me? That way i can make my custom action...
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### Author:  [@deleted\_user](https://www.finalbuilder.com/forums/u/deleted_user)
#### Post date: [May 25, 2012, 7:38am UTC](https://www.finalbuilder.com/forums/t/about-copy-with-outputencoding/1981/4 "2012-05-25T07:38:13Z")
Solution: I used the software “iconv”.
[http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/packages/libiconv.htm](http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/packages/libiconv.htm)