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Nicholas Clark wrote:
> return pack('C*', unpack('n*', $sTxt));
>
> No. That's not a valid way to convert ucs2 text to anything, let alone
> ISO-8859-1
>
> Urge
> To
> Kill
> Rising
>
> [It's converting network order 16 bit values into a list of numbers, then
> converting that list to 8 bit characters, with an implicit truncation]
>
> Nicholas Clark
>
>
I ran into problems with UCS2 a couple weeks ago. I exported some data
from MS SQL into a CSV file, which I then read from a scripting language
(R, a statistical language) to do some stuff. R doesn't know how to
read UCS2, which is hateful (since there's a Windows binary of it, you
would think it would know how). Anyway, I ended up just doing the
conversion with vim (using the fenc option), since it was a one-shot deal.
That isn't really all that relevant to your hate, but I feel your pain
nonetheless.
Jeremy
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Jeremy Stephens Computer Systems Analyst I School of Medicine
Department of Biostatistics Vanderbilt University
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