From: Tim Perrett <hello@...>
Date: 2008-02-01T00:16:08+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"

So presumably something like the below would work?

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

File.open('example.txt', 'w') do |f|
   f.puts utf_16_str
end
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