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[rt.cpan.org #73623] [perl #107326] perl's unicode conversion fails when iconv succeeds

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From:
Linda A Walsh via RT
Date:
December 30, 2011 15:58
Subject:
[rt.cpan.org #73623] [perl #107326] perl's unicode conversion fails when iconv succeeds
Message ID:
rt-3.8.HEAD-6895-1325289473-658.73623-6-0@rt.cpan.org
<URL: https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=73623 >

On Fri Dec 30 18:49:46 2011, LAWALSH wrote:
> On Fri Dec 30 18:44:35 2011, LAWALSH wrote:
>> # piconv -f UTF-8 -t UTF-16 <test.out >test2.out 
>> # cmp test.in test2.out
>> test.in test2.out differ: byte 1, line 1 test.out was same size 
> 
> Sounds like it might be assuming UTF-16 means BE and not LE?
----
Yup:

cmp -l -b test.in test2.out
  1 377 M-^? 376 M-~
  2 376 M-~  377 M-^?
  3 127 W      0 ^@
  4   0 ^@   127 W
  5 151 i      0 ^@
...
671  12 ^J     0 ^@
672   0 ^@   134 \
cmp: EOF on test.in



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