UTF-16 files

Hello,
I am processing files that are usually "ASCII text, with CRLF line terminators" but, once in a while I am getting the data (only numbers and simple english characters) in "Little-endian UTF-16 Unicode character data, with CRLF line terminators" files. How can I recognize those UTF-16 files and convert them into ASCII text files?
Many thanks

ASCII text shouldn't contain 0x00 bytes, while in UTF-16 around 50% of bytes should be 0x00. You can also ask the user.

Hi,
Well, I did it the way below and it works fine for my purpose and for the specific files I am dealing with but I am not sure how general it is:

Code:

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38   QFile in(QString::fromStdString("datazip/temp/" + fileName));
 39   in.open(QIODevice::ReadOnly);
 40   QByteArray bufIn, bufOut;
 41   bufIn = in.readAll();
 42   in.close();
 43   if((int)bufIn.at(0) < 0)
 44   {  
 45     for(int i(0); i<bufIn.size(); ++i)
 46       if((int) bufIn.at(i) > 0)
 47         bufOut.append(bufIn.at(i));
 48     QFile out(QString::fromStdString("datazip/temp/" + fileName));
 49     out.open(QIODevice::WriteOnly);
 50     out.write(bufOut);
 51     out.close();
 52   }

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Thanks!

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Originally Posted by jcr

Well, I did it the way below and it works fine for my purpose and for the specific files I am dealing with but I am not sure how general it is:

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Iff those files contain only ASCII characters, but are encoded in UTF-16, there shouldn't be any problem.

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Originally Posted by jcr

if((int)bufIn.at(0) > 0)

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Code:

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if( bufIn.at(0) != 0 )

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might be safer.