Converting file from utf-16 to utf-8

[Kioko --]

Hi,

I'm currently rewriting an old php-script in ruby.
One thing this script is for is to open a file which is in utf-16, read
it as utf-8, work a little bit with the data and save it into a
database.

However I tried to use Iconv to solve this but I've failed

The php script runs perfectly without any error.
If somebody is familiar with php here is the code (yeah, very VERY ugly,
but that's why I'm rewriting it )

$fp = fopen($file,"r");
$lines = file($file);
for ($line=1; $line<=count($lines); $line++) {
$string .= fgets($fp);
}
$string = iconv('UTF-16', 'UTF-8', $string);


But Ruby throws an Iconv::IllegalSequence error:

doc = File.open(file).read
doc = Iconv.iconv('utf-16', 'utf-8', doc) #Iconv::IllegalSequence

Because it's the same file I really don't know how to solve this.
If I'm using utf-16//IGNORE, obviously, many signs are missing.
Are any other "workarounds"/methods to use out there?
Or something I overlooked?

sincerely.

 

[OZAWA Sakuro]

$string = iconv('UTF-16', 'UTF-8', $string);

doc = Iconv.iconv('utf-16', 'utf-8', doc) #Iconv::IllegalSequence

Iconv.iconv takes "to" encoding first, followed by "from" encoding.

 

[Kioko --]

Iconv.iconv takes "to" encoding first, followed by "from" encoding.

Oh man.. that's really... uhm.. *head->wall*
Read the documentation many times and didn't notice it.

I'm really sorry to have opened such a thread T__T
But thanks for the answer and not flaming about it

 

[Walton Hoops]

OZAWA Sakuro wrote:


Oh man.. that's really... uhm.. *head->wall*
Read the documentation many times and didn't notice it.

I'm really sorry to have opened such a thread T__T
But thanks for the answer and not flaming about it

Heh, I'm sure everyone here has never, *ever*, _*ever*_ made a mistake
like that.