Hi. I receive a byte array that contains utf-16 string (with a lot of
\0 characters ) from a legacy system that holds some data that is
changed elsewhere. How do I convert it to an actual utf-16 string for
my app's purposes? I am using php 5.

On Nov 5, 5:22 pm, Sergei Shelukhin <realg...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi. I receive a byte array that contains utf-16 string (with a lot of
> \0 characters ) from a legacy system that holds some data that is
> changed elsewhere. How do I convert it to an actual utf-16 string for
> my app's purposes? I am using php 5.

After outputting the byte order mark (either chr(0xFE).chr(0xFF) or
chr(0xFF).chr(0xFE)) you'd just output the string as usual. If you're
going to output this to HTML, you'd need to specify the charset. eg.

header('Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-16');

On Nov 6, 2:37 am, yawnmoth <terra1...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> On Nov 5, 5:22 pm, Sergei Shelukhin <realg...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Hi. I receive a byte array that contains utf-16 string (with a lot of
> > \0 characters ) from a legacy system that holds some data that is
> > changed elsewhere. How do I convert it to an actual utf-16 string for
> > my app's purposes? I am using php 5.
>
> After outputting the byte order mark (either chr(0xFE).chr(0xFF) or
> chr(0xFF).chr(0xFE)) you'd just output the string as usual. If you're
> going to output this to HTML, you'd need to specify the charset. eg.
>
> header('Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-16');

What about passing it to linux command line application (script
really)?

Greetings, Sergei Shelukhin.
In reply to Your message dated Wednesday, November 7, 2007, 01:26:55,

>> > Hi. I receive a byte array that contains utf-16 string (with a lot of
>> > \0 characters ) from a legacy system that holds some data that is
>> > changed elsewhere. How do I convert it to an actual utf-16 string for
>> > my app's purposes? I am using php 5.
>>
>> After outputting the byte order mark (either chr(0xFE).chr(0xFF) or
>> chr(0xFF).chr(0xFE)) you'd just output the string as usual. If you're
>> going to output this to HTML, you'd need to specify the charset. eg.
>>
>> header('Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-16');

> What about passing it to linux command line application (script
> really)?

Passing what? UTF-16 string? Guess it's tricky if not impossible.
Try converting it to UTF-8 (using iconv i.e.)


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