From: Angelo NN <storm8000@...>
Date: 2011-04-07T05:15:51+09:00
Subject: Re: Windows 2008 Server: Reading Text File with Ruby.

Jonathan Hudson wrote in post #991297:
> On Thu, 7 Apr 2011 04:58:54 +0900, Angelo NN wrote:
>
>> > or perhaps
>>
>> >> contents = File.open('tmp', 'r:utf-16') { |f| f.read }
>> (irb):15: warning: Unsupported encoding utf-16 ignored
>> =>
>> "\xFF\xFE\n\x00\n\x00\n\x00\n\x00C\x00a\x00p\x00a\x00c\x00i\x00t\x00y\x00=\x0
>> 
08\x005\x008\x009\x009\x003\x004\x005\x009\x002\x00\n\x00\n\x00\n\x00\n\x00\n\x0
>> 0\n\x00"
>>
>
> I think the old ways still work:
>
>  require 'iconv'
>  content=File.binread('tmp')
>  #                   TO      FROM (set TO to 'native encoding')
>  text = Iconv::conv("utf-8",'utf-16', content)
>  puts text
>
> -jh

Wow - Awesome.
That worked.

Thanks Jonathan!

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