Lancashire, Pete wrote:
how do I convert a file (or output to stdont) with an unknown 16 encoding
into plain
ol' ASCII aka 8 BIT ?
Example of files contents
0 255 254
2 60 0
4 72 0
6 84 0
8 77 0
10 76 0
12 62 0
or ..
0000000 377 376 < \0 H \0 T \0 M \0 L \0 > \0 \n \0
0000020 \0 \0 < \0 B \0 O \0 D \0 Y \0 > \0
0000040 \n
Can you open the file in vim?
If I try a UTF-16 encoded file in vim, it shows the file correctly.
You can then set:
:set fileencoding=utf-8
and write out the file again (as a new file) to eliminate the NULL's.
Mogens
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