From: 7stud -- <bbxx789_05ss@...>
Date: 2008-02-01T23:47:24+09:00
Subject: Re: is this a complex encoding problem?

Tim Perrett wrote:
> Hey chaps,
> 
> Im trying to write a text file to the file system, but it *must* have an
> exact byte order as per this:
> 
> http://support.adobe.com/devsup/devsup.nsf/docs/54161.htm
> 
> http://support.adobe.com/devsup/devsup.nsf/docs/54162.htm
> 
> Ive been looking at the Iconv elements of ruby, and Array.pack but im
> really not sure how best to ensure that it is the correct byte order? Or
> that the carriage returns are correct.
> 
> What are peoples thoughts?
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Tim

For UNICODE-WIN and UNICODE-MAC, the tagged text file in its entirety 
must be in UTF-16LE or UTF-16BE, respectively. (LE = Little Endian, BE = 
Big

So use those encodings with iconv.
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