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in thread Cannot decode string with wide charactersCannot decode string with wide characters - I'm not decoding!

UTF-16 is very easy to parse. Whatever is reading the string just blindly reads two byte chunks (16 bits) from the string, and whatever is in those two bytes is a Unicode integer.
What you describe here is UCS-2. See utf-16
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Re^3: Cannot decode string with wide charactersCannot decode string with wide characters - I'm not decoding!
by 7stud (Deacon) on May 05, 2011 at 00:47 UTC
    Doh. Thanks for correcting me.