Method unicode_to_string()

Method unicode_to_string

string unicode_to_string(string(8bit) s, int(0..2)|void byteorder)

Description

Converts an UTF16 byte-stream into a string.

Parameter s

String to convert to UTF16.

Parameter byteorder

Default input byte-order. One of:

0	Network (aka big-endian) byte-order (default).
1	Little-endian byte-order.
2	Native byte-order.

Note that this argument is disregarded if s starts with a BOM.

Note

This function did not decode surrogates in Pike 7.2 and earlier.

See also

Charset.decoder(), string_to_unicode(), string_to_utf8(), utf8_to_string()