From: 7stud -- <bbxx789_05ss@...>
Date: 2008-01-31T23:12:03+09:00
Subject: Re: Writing text files with an explicit encoding (UTF-16LE)

Tim Perrett wrote:
> Hey all,
> 
> I cant seem to find any documentation on how to write a text file to the
> filesystem with an explicit encoding type? Can someone point me in the
> right direction? Its a simple text file, but it *needs* to be UTF-16.
> 
> Cheers
> 
> Tim

require 'iconv'

converter = Iconv.new("UTF-16", "ISO-8859-15")
utf_16_str = converter.iconv('hello world')
p utf_16_str

--output:--
"\376\377\000h\000e\000l\000l\000o\000 \000w\000o\000r\000l\000d"
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