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Reputation: 5967

Convert UTF-8 to UTF-16 in iconv

As far as I know, the UTF-8 form of"你好" (means "How are you?" in English) is
\xe4\xbd\xa0\xe5\xa5\xbd, and the UTF-16 form is u\u4f60\u597d (or you can write it as \x4f\x60\x59\x7d).

Now I use iconv to convert from UTF-8 to UTF-16. At first, I created a new file, with one line("你好") in it, named test, and I run the command:

cat test | iconv  -f  UTF-8 -t UNICODE  
��`O}Y

It's not \x4f\x60\x59\x7d. How can I get the right output?

Upvotes: 2

Views: 4002

Answers (1)

perilbrain
perilbrain

Reputation: 8197

It's not UTF-8, but UCS-2

Try:-

cat test | iconv  -f  UCS-2 -t UTF-16

Upvotes: 2

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