In <[email protected]>, on 12/29/2011
at 09:19 AM, Brad Wissink <[email protected]> said:
>We have a client that is trying to transfer us a file and it is
>loaded with nulls. They say that is the way it comes from the
>purchased software they have on their workstation. The file has a
>null character inserted after every character
That sounds like it's a Unicode file in UCS-2 or UTF-16.
>Has anyone seen anything like this before? Is there a quick and
>easy way to remove all the nulls?
Use any utility capable of translating UTF-16 to UTF-8. I believe that
iconv will work.
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