Obtaining a hexadecimal dump of a Unicode Text Document

[William]

As part of the High Plane Unicode Mapping thread viewtopic.php?f=3&t=2527 I produced a Unicode Text Document from WordPad.

12345rainbow.txt

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I remember that some years ago I saved a Unicode Text Document from WordPad and managed to produce a hexadecimal dump of the bytes in the file, which I could then study so as to understand how WordPad is storing the characters in the file.

I would like to study the bytes in the attached file to try to determine how the characters are stored in the file.

Unfortunately i cannot remember how I obtained the hexadecimal dump of the file.

Could someone suggest a method to produce a hexadecimal dump of the file please?

William Overington

2 January 2009

[Erwin Denissen]

Could someone suggest a method to produce a hexadecimal dump of the file please?

Here is a hex representation of your file that contains 16 bytes:

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FFFE310032003300 34003500B8DB0DDC ÿþ1 2 3 4 5 ¸Û Ü

You can use this utility to view a file in it's hexadecimal presentation:

ViewHex.zip

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[William]

Thank you.

William Overington

2 January 2009

[Erwin Denissen]

You're welcome.

The first two bytes are a byte-order mark. 0xFF 0xFE indicates the file has a UTF-16 (little-endian order) encoding.