> Hello,
> 
> I'm having difficulties reading a log file from ADMT using ordinary perl
> 5.8.7 open command.
> After opening the file (apparently in "little endian" format, according to
> my notepad++) i'm printed it and i get spaces everywhere (space between each
> char!).
> when i convert the file to UTF8 (again, manually with my notepad++) it
> prints out file just fine.
> 
> anyone knows how to handle this encoding in perl, or how can i convert it to
> UTF8?

If i've read perluniintro correctly, you can use an open statement like this to 
process the file directly:

open FH, "<:encoding(ucs2)", $filename or die "Can't open $filename $!\n";

--
Eric Amick
Columbia, MD

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