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On 31/8/23 04:37, Simon Geard wrote:
> So I have a data file containing ascii characters which is UTF-16LE
> encoded (output from Powershell). I`d like to do two things with this
> file from tcl on both Windows and Linux:
>
> 1) detect that it is utf-16le
> 2) convert it to ascii (or utf-8)
>
> Looking at the output from [encoding names] on Linux there is no
> utf-16le, does it have a different name? It looks to me as if I could
> just read the file two bytes at a time and drop the second byte but I
> was hoping I could use fconfigure and encoding.
>
> Thanks for any ideas.
>
> Simon
https://wiki.tcl-lang.org/page/Unicode+file+reader
but I just use notepad++ and save as utf-8
Peter
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