<http://schema.org/articleBody>
"OK, bear with me: You can use iSeriesPython for this. Assuming you have a faithful byte-for-byte copy of the files in the IFS, you can open them in Python in binary mode to get a stream of bytes. Then decode as necessary. For example, f = open('NotepadUnicode.txt', 'rb') bytes = f.read() unicode_data = bytes.decode('utf_16_le') At that point, unicode_data will be a string of Unicode characters, which you can then either process directly with Python or encode into a more favorable encoding and save back to t..."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
<http://archive.midrange.com/midrange-l/201302/msg01289.html>