# tChangeFileEncoding

Transforms the character encoding of a given file and generates a new file with the transformed character encoding.

tChangeFileEncoding changes the encoding of a given file.

For more technologies supported by Talend, see [Talend components](https://help.qlik.com/talend/r/en-US/7.3/components/tchangefileencoding).

### In this section

* [tChangeFileEncoding Standard properties](https://help.qlik.com/talend/en-US/components/7.3/formatting/tchangefileencoding-standard-properties?id=1348)

**Related concepts**

[Transforming the character encoding of a file](https://help.qlik.com/talend/en-US/components/7.3/formatting/tchangefileencoding-transforming-character-encoding-of-file-standard-component "This Java scenario describes a very simple Job that transforms the character encoding of a text file and generates a new file with the new character encoding.")