At 12:12 08/09/17, Tanaka Akira wrote: >In article <op.uhlk4avz9245dp / kool>, > "Michael Selig" <michael.selig / fs.com.au> writes: >> The weird thing is that I can open it for writing without "b". > >For writing, encoding conversion is always required for >ASCII incompatible encoding. So newline conversion can be >done with that. Can you explain? Does it mean that on output, UTF-16BE is explicitly (e.g. via UTF-8) converted to UTF-16BE, if that's what's needed? If that's the case, why only on output? Regards, Martin. #-#-# Martin J. Du"rst, Assoc. Professor, Aoyama Gakuin University #-#-# http://www.sw.it.aoyama.ac.jp mailto:duerst / it.aoyama.ac.jp