Posted by AnrDaemon on 11/07/07 14:11

Greetings, Sergei Shelukhin.
In reply to Your message dated Wednesday, November 7, 2007, 01:26:55,

>> > Hi. I receive a byte array that contains utf-16 string (with a lot of
>> > \0 characters :)) from a legacy system that holds some data that is
>> > changed elsewhere. How do I convert it to an actual utf-16 string for
>> > my app's purposes? I am using php 5.
>>
>> After outputting the byte order mark (either chr(0xFE).chr(0xFF) or
>> chr(0xFF).chr(0xFE)) you'd just output the string as usual. If you're
>> going to output this to HTML, you'd need to specify the charset. eg.
>>
>> header('Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-16');

> What about passing it to linux command line application (script
> really)?

Passing what? UTF-16 string? Guess it's tricky if not impossible.
Try converting it to UTF-8 (using iconv i.e.)


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Sincerely Yours, AnrDaemon <anrdaemon@freemail.ru>

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