Hello. I didn't find a good editor to work with some UTF16LE text file (starts with FFFE) on *nix.
The only edior I know deals with UTF16LE in the *nix world is mozilla composer. I didn't test emacs: I'm not used to it.
Vim supports UTF-16 BOM autodetection if you add the following line to your ~/.vimrc file:
set fileencodings=ucs-bom,utf-8,your_primary_legacy_encoding
where 'your_primary_legacy_encoding' is optional but can be handy if you have to deal with text files in that encoding (say, EUC-JP, ISO-8859-1, GB2312, Big5, etc) frequently.
BTW, there are other editors for Unix that support UTF-16/32 if not the autodetection based on BOM. Check out mined and Yudit.
Jungshik
