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if (UltraEdit.activeDocument.encoding != 1200)  // Is the active file not UTF-16 LE encoded?
{                                               // That works for ANSI and UTF-8 encoded files
   UltraEdit.activeDocument.ASCIIToUnicode();   // despite the string ASCII in function name.
}
// It does not work for UTF-16 BE encoded Unicode files (encoding number 1201). The
// function ASCIIToUnicode() does not make any change in this case on active file.

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// Include the function GetListOfFiles() here without the code demonstrating the usage.

// Replace the initial directory path in the function parameter list with
// real path of the directory containing the files to modify by the script.
if (GetListOfFiles(0,"C:\\Directory\\Path\\","*.*",true))
{
   // If there was no error and files are found in the directory, the
   // function made the search results output with the file names active.
   // Select all lines in the file and load the file names into an array.
   UltraEdit.activeDocument.selectAll();
   var sLineTerm = "\r\n";   // Default line terminator type is DOS.
   var nLineTermPos = UltraEdit.activeDocument.selection.search(/\r\n|\n|\r/);
   if (nLineTermPos >= 0)    // Any line terminator found?
   {
      // The list file is a Unix file if first character found is a line-feed.
      if (UltraEdit.activeDocument.selection[nLineTermPos] == '\n') sLineTerm = "\n";
      // The list file is a Mac file if first character found is a carriage
      // return and the next character is not a line-feed as in a DOS file.
      else if (UltraEdit.activeDocument.selection[nLineTermPos+1] != '\n') sLineTerm = "\r";
   }
   var asFileNames = UltraEdit.activeDocument.selection.split(sLineTerm);

   // The list is not needed anymore and therefore the results window is closed.
   UltraEdit.closeFile(UltraEdit.activeDocument.path,2);
   asFileNames.pop();  // Remove empty string at end of the list.
   
   // Now open one file after the other, process it, save and close the file.   
   // No file in the list should be opened already on script start! Why?
   // http://forums.ultraedit.com/viewtopic.php?f=52&t=4596#p26710
   // contains the answer on point 7 and the solution to enhance
   // this script further if this is necessary in some cases.
   for (var nFileIndex = 0; nFileIndex < asFileNames.length; nFileIndex++)
   {
      UltraEdit.open(asFileNames[nFileIndex]);

      if (UltraEdit.activeDocument.encoding != 1200)  // Is the active file not UTF-16 LE encoded?
      {                                               // That works for ANSI and UTF-8 encoded files
         UltraEdit.activeDocument.ASCIIToUnicode();   // despite the string ASCII in function name.
         // It does not work for UTF-16 BE encoded Unicode files (encoding number 1201). The
         // function ASCIIToUnicode() does not make any change in this case on active file.
         UltraEdit.closeFile(UltraEdit.activeDocument.path,1);
      }
      else UltraEdit.closeFile(UltraEdit.activeDocument.path,2);
   }
}