Writing text files with an explicit encoding (UTF-16LE)

Ruby
1

Hey all,

I cant seem to find any documentation on how to write a text file to the
filesystem with an explicit encoding type? Can someone point me in the
right direction? Its a simple text file, but it needs to be UTF-16.

Cheers

Tim

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Tim P. wrote:

Hey all,

I cant seem to find any documentation on how to write a text file to the
filesystem with an explicit encoding type? Can someone point me in the
right direction? Its a simple text file, but it needs to be UTF-16.

Cheers

Tim

require ‘iconv’

converter = Iconv.new(“UTF-16”, “ISO-8859-15”)
utf_16_str = converter.iconv(‘hello world’)
p utf_16_str

–output:–
“\376\377\000h\000e\000l\000l\000o\000 \000w\000o\000r\000l\000d”

3

7stud – wrote:

require ‘iconv’

converter = Iconv.new(“UTF-16”, “ISO-8859-15”)
utf_16_str = converter.iconv(‘hello world’)
p utf_16_str

–output:–
“\376\377\000h\000e\000l\000l\000o\000 \000w\000o\000r\000l\000d”

Whoops. I overlooked the ‘LE’ in your title:

require ‘iconv’

converter = Iconv.new(“UTF-16LE”, “ISO-8859-15”)
utf_16_str = converter.iconv(‘hello world’)
p utf_16_str

–output:–
“h\000e\000l\000l\000o\000 \000w\000o\000r\000l\000d\000”

4

Yup - it works :slight_smile:

Thanks!

5

7stud – wrote:

require ‘iconv’

converter = Iconv.new(“UTF-16”, “ISO-8859-15”)
utf_16_str = converter.iconv(‘hello world’)
p utf_16_str

–output:–
“\376\377\000h\000e\000l\000l\000o\000 \000w\000o\000r\000l\000d”

So presumably something like the below would work?

converter = Iconv.new(“UTF-16”, “ISO-8859-15”)
utf_16_str = converter.iconv(‘hello world’)

File.open(‘example.txt’, ‘w’) do |f|
f.puts utf_16_str
end