From: Tim Perrett Date: 2008-02-02T00:11:29+09:00 Subject: Re: is this a complex encoding problem? 7stud -- wrote: > 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. Hey 7stud - the files indesign is exporting are utf16be, so i'll try and match that. Otherwise, is there a way to write a utf-16 file without the BOM? The exported tagged text from indesign doesnt appear to have a BOM. Im only going to be using this on mac osx, so I should just be able to use \n for a the line endings shouldnt i? Cheers Tim -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.