Re: Converting string to UTF-16LE

At 6:19 pm +0100 25/2/04, Sebastian Lehmann wrote:

> Can anybody tell me how to work with UTF8 and UTF16 in the same script? Any
> help would be greatly appreciated.
Suppose that /tmp/iba.txt contains the text 
"ibañez" in UCS-2, preceded by the BOM, then this 
works here (Perl 5.8.3)

use Encode qw/encode decode/;
my $f_16 = qq~/tmp/iba.txt~;
open F16, qq~$f_16~;
my $ucs2 = <F16> ;
my $utf8 = decode("UCS-2BE", $ucs2)  ;
print uc $utf8 ;


Does that help?

JD