From: 7stud -- <bbxx789_05ss@...>
Date: 2008-02-01T00:11:31+09:00
Subject: Re: Writing text files with an explicit encoding (UTF-16LE)

7stud -- wrote:
>
> 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"

Whoops.  I overlooked the 'LE' in your title:

require 'iconv'

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

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