how to convert text file with unknown 16 bit encoding to 8 bit as cii
Patrick O'Callaghan
pocallaghan at gmail.com
Wed Aug 13 16:36:41 UTC 2008
On Wed, 2008-08-13 at 08:16 -0700, Lancashire, Pete wrote:
> how do I convert a file (or output to stdont) with an unknown 16 encoding
> into plain
> ol' ASCII aka 8 BIT ?
>
> Example of files contents
>
> 0 255 254
> 2 60 0
> 4 72 0
> 6 84 0
> 8 77 0
> 10 76 0
> 12 62 0
>
> or ..
>
> 0000000 377 376 < \0 H \0 T \0 M \0 L \0 > \0 \n \0
> 0000020 \0 \0 < \0 B \0 O \0 D \0 Y \0 > \0
> 0000040 \n
Looks like "<HTML>\n<BODY>\n" with a bunch of nulls and other stuff,
like mangled Web page. Where is this from? It doesn't seem to be
anything standard.
poc
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