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Operating Systems Linux Help to Convert file from UNIX UTF-8 to Windows UTF-16 Post 302886237 by phanidhar6039 on Thursday 30th of January 2014 08:20:52 AM
Old 01-30-2014
Help to Convert file from UNIX UTF-8 to Windows UTF-16
Hi,

I have tried to convert a UTF-8 file to windows UTF-16 format file as below from unix machine

Code:
unix2dos < testing.txt | iconv -f UTF-8 -t UTF-16 > out.txt

and i am getting some chinese characters as below which l opened the converted file on windows machine.

Code:
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
਍䰀䌀开䌀吀夀倀䔀㴀∀攀渀开唀匀⸀唀吀䘀ⴀ㠀∀ഀഀ
LC_NUMERIC="en_US.UTF-8"
਍䰀䌀开吀䤀䴀䔀㴀∀攀渀开唀匀⸀唀吀䘀ⴀ㠀∀ഀഀ
LC_COLLATE="en_US.UTF-8"
਍䰀䌀开䴀伀一䔀吀䄀刀夀㴀∀攀渀开唀匀⸀唀吀䘀ⴀ㠀∀ഀഀ
LC_MESSAGES="en_US.UTF-8"
਍䰀䌀开倀䄀倀䔀刀㴀∀攀渀开唀匀⸀唀吀䘀ⴀ㠀∀ഀഀ
LC_NAME="en_US.UTF-8"
਍䰀䌀开䄀䐀䐀刀䔀匀匀㴀∀攀渀开唀匀⸀唀吀䘀ⴀ㠀∀ഀഀ
LC_TELEPHONE="en_US.UTF-8"
਍䰀䌀开䴀䔀䄀匀唀刀䔀䴀䔀一吀㴀∀攀渀开唀匀⸀唀吀䘀ⴀ㠀∀ഀഀ
LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_US.UTF-8"
਍䰀䌀开䄀䰀䰀㴀ഀഀ

This is just a test file i was working on but the actual file contains numbers of rows and columns. Am i missing anything above up here?

The requirements are for the output should be as below

- UTF-16 Little endian
- preceded with a byte order marker --ff and fe
- Windows line endings

Any pointers will be great

Thanks,
P
Last edited by phanidhar6039; 01-30-2014 at 09:35 AM.. Reason: More info
 

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NAME

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SYNOPSIS

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DESCRIPTION

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