Reading text from a Unicode text file

(imported topic written by bchae91)

Is there a way to read text from a Unicode Text file. The unicode text file I am trying to read only has one integer in it. When i use the relevance below i just get a bunch of jibberish.

line 1 of file “C:\test1.txt”

(imported comment written by BenKus)

Can you post the file and we can take a look at it?

Ben

(imported comment written by bchae91)

Here you go.

(imported comment written by NoahSalzman)

For those curious what is inside this file but don’t want to download it:

$ hexdump 1.txt

0000000 ff fe 30 00 0d 00 0a 00

0000008

(imported comment written by jessewk)

I don’t know if this will always work, but it does for that particular file:

Q: preceding texts of lasts “%00” of following texts of firsts “%ff%fe” of lines of file “c:\documents and settings\administrator\desktop\1.txt”

A: 0