CP Converter

CP Converter is a lightweight and portable application that enables you to perform codepage conversions. It offers support for TXT, HTM and HTML filetypes. The tool doesn't integrate complex options, making it suitable for all user levels.

Portability advantages

It's packed in a single .exe file that you can save in any location on the disk to directly run the program. Otherwise, you can copy it to a removable storage unit, in order to seamlessly launch CP Converter on any computer with no previous installers.
More importantly, it doesn't add new entries to the Windows registry, so it doesn't increase the likelihood of OS stability issues. Plus, it doesn't create other files on the disk without your permission, nor require any DLLs during runtime.

Simple GUI for converting codepage

When it comes to the interface, the utility adopts a small window that shows all options available. You can use a file browser to locate the TXT or HTML file you want to process, select the source and output codepage, as well as specify the destination directory and name of the new file.
Worth noting is that the original files remain untouched, so there's no need to create backups prior to using this application. The supported codepage types are ASCII, CP 895, CP 852, Windows 1250, ISO-8859, UUEncoding 1, UUEncoding 2, and quoted.
On the other hand, the tool doesn't implement options for autodetecting the codepage of the source file. On top of that, it doesn't support batch processing, so you can convert only one file at a time.

Evaluation and conclusion

It didn't put a strain on the computer's performance in our tests. Plus, we haven't come across any problems, since it didn't hang, crash or prompt errors. Thanks to its interface and options, CP Converter can be easily handled by anyone.