Converts UTF-8 Java properties files into ISO-8859-1 with \u encoding

properties_converter.py

import pathlib

for p in pathlib.Path(".").glob("*.properties"):
    with open(p, "r", encoding="utf-8") as fd:
        converted = fd.read().encode("raw-unicode-escape").decode("latin1")

    with open(p, "w", newline="\n", encoding="latin1") as fd:
        fd.write(converted)