Re: Unicode text, UTF-16, little-endian with less(1)

[Tobias Nygren <tnn%NetBSD.org@localhost>]

On Mon, 17 Mar 2008 09:56:29 -0500 (CDT)
"Jeremy C. Reed" <reed%reedmedia.net@localhost> wrote:

> So I have a file from some Windows system of file type:
> 
>  Unicode text, UTF-16, little-endian
> 
> cat(1) displays it fine to my xterm, but way to long for me to scroll 
> back. And I don't want to manually chop up with head and tail to read :)
> 

> Any examples of getting less to view this?

Something like this should work:

$ iconv -f utf-16 -t utf-8 < file.txt | LESSCHARSET=utf-8 less
or
$ iconv -f utf-16 -t iso8859-1 < file.txt | less