how to convert text file with unknown 16 bit encoding to 8 bit as cii

Wed Aug 13 16:36:41 UTC 2008

On Wed, 2008-08-13 at 08:16 -0700, Lancashire, Pete wrote:
> how do I convert a file (or output to stdont) with an unknown 16 encoding
> into plain
> ol' ASCII aka 8 BIT ?
> 
> Example of files contents
> 
>  0 255 254
>  2  60   0
>  4  72   0
>  6  84   0
>  8  77   0
> 10  76   0
> 12  62   0
> 
> or ..
> 
> 0000000 377 376   <  \0   H  \0   T  \0   M  \0   L  \0   >  \0  \n  \0
> 0000020      \0      \0   <  \0   B  \0   O  \0   D  \0   Y  \0   >  \0
> 0000040  \n

Looks like "<HTML>\n<BODY>\n" with a bunch of nulls and other stuff,
like mangled Web page. Where is this from? It doesn't seem to be
anything standard.

poc