Re: Unicode Puzzle

It appears to be UTF-16be or UCS-2be (no way to know from what you posted).

UTF-16 has two possible byte orders, so telling decode just "UTF-16" is not enough unless there's a BOM to indicate byte order.

The "padded with 00" bit probably refers to the two U+0000 at the end.

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Re^2: Unicode Puzzle by Skeeve (Parson) on Aug 12, 2010 at 21:49 UTC
Many thanks, ikegami! Both (utf16be and ucs2be) seem to work. The data I have does not help me yet in deciding, which one is the "real" one. `s$$([},&%#}/&/]+}%&{});#$&&s&&$^X.($'^"%]=\&(\|?{%` `+`.+=%;.#_}\&"^"-+%*).}%:##%}={~=~:.")&e&&s""`$''`"e	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^3: Unicode Puzzle by aquarium (Curate) on Aug 13, 2010 at 00:27 UTC
if you can get iconv library and associated binaries for you platform, they're good tools for unicode inspection and test/real conversion. the hardest line to type correctly is: stty erase ^H	[reply]