Posted by Stephen Auerbach on August 05, 2005 at 07:29:08:
I'm working on a program that imports a file from a web site. I could not read the file.
Barbara kindly pointed out that the file was not in ASCII though it looked that way in the editor. She looked at it in Hex and it was strange.
Clever Jim realized that the file is in UNICODE. I Googled UNICODE.
It's actually in Little-Enden UNICODE. You know that because the first two bytes are FFFE and the letter A is 4100. If it had been in Big-Enden UNICODE the first two bytes would have been FEFF and an A would be 0041. Whew.
Then I found a site that offered the following technique to convert UNICODE to ASCII:
TYPE UNICODE.TXT > ASCII.TXT
Now that's my idea of a work around!
Thank you Barbara and thank you Jim. I am posting this amazing work around as my way of saying thanks.