how to convert text file with unknown 16 bit encoding to 8 bit as cii

[Kevin J. Cummings]

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
> 
> thanks,

Is this a UTF-16 encoding?

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