Merging Text That Looks Garbled
Key points
- Check the start of each file
- Merge
- Fix the encoding if garbled
Merge and Split Text Files detects UTF-8 and Shift_JIS automatically and merges them.
Steps
- Check the preview of the first file
- Merge and save
- If garbled, fix it with Convert Text Encoding
Detection is done per file.
Use "Merge and Split Text Files" (free)
Tools that go well with this
- Remove and Tidy Line Breaks in Text: Tidy line breaks in text copied from PDFs and elsewhere.
- Convert Text Encoding (Fix Garbled Text): Convert text files between Shift_JIS, UTF-8, EUC-JP and more to fix garbled text.
- Merge, Split and Pick Columns from CSV: Merge CSV files, split by rows, or keep only chosen columns.