ANSI to Unicode (UTF16LE)

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Converts from ANSI to Unicode. Converts single byte ANSI characters to double byte Unicode characters. This filter can be useful if you want to send a text file to someone using a language other than your own.

This function was originally included in older versions of TextPipe. To use this feature in conjunction with the new Unicode conversion functions, you must first convert from UTF-16LE to Unicode.

On our test system, US ASCII is transformed to UTF-16LE:

00000000 20 00 09 00 20 00 33 00 32 00 0D 00 0A 00 21 00 ... .3.2.....!.
00000010 09 00 20 00 33 00 33 00 0D 00 0A 00 22 00 09 00 .. .3.3....."...
00000020 20 00 33 00 34 00 0D 00 0A 00 23 00 09 00 20 00 .3.4.....#... .
00000030 33 00 35 00 0D 00 0A 00 24 00 09 00 20 00 33 00 3.5.....$... .3.

This filter is often followed by an Add Header filter, to add a Unicode byte order mark (BOM), \xFF\xFE.

See also

Unicode to ANSI
Unicode conversion