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Converts a string to the specified encoding. The from encoding must be known. A character encoding is the way text is stored as bytes; different systems sometimes use different encodings, which is what makes accented or special characters appear garbled when text moves between them. This step re-encodes the value: you tell it which encoding the value is currently in and which encoding you want it stored as, so it lands correctly in the target system.

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This step changes how text is stored as bytes rather than how it reads, so a before/after that prints the same characters on both sides does not show anything useful, and converting to a non-UTF-8 target produces bytes that cannot be displayed as plain text here. The example below is therefore shown as a configuration rather than a before/after. A common use is taking a value a source system delivers in the older Western European encoding (ISO-8859-1) and re-encoding it as UTF-8 so accented characters such as ö or é display correctly downstream instead of appearing as garbled symbols.
FieldValue
From encodingISO-8859-1
To encodingUTF-8