> I'm trying to output a string of characters as 16-bit unicode. If they
> were all ascii, I'd do this for each one:
>
> print MYFILE pack("n", ord($my_chr));
>
> The analogous line with unicode text is
>
> print MYFILE pack("W", ord($my_chr));
>
> but that gets me utf-8 text: one byte for 7-bit ascii characters and
> two for most others. I want utf-16, not utf-8, each char exactly 16
> bits, but modifying the outfile screws everything up, e.g.
>
> open MYFILE, ">:encoding(utf-16)", "$filepath";
my quick reading shows that maybe you need UTF-16? but the other issue
might be endianness. so try UTF-16BE or UTF-16LE to see if that gives
what you want. or maybe you really mean UCS-2BE/LE? UTF-16 can actually
give 4 bytes for certain characters.
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