[Tutor] convert a file from plaintext(Ascii) to unicode? very quick questions

[Bob Gailer]

At 06:49 PM 8/15/2005, D. Hartley wrote:
>Hello guys!
>
>Is there a way to convert a file from plaintext(Ascii) to unicode?  I
>have found all my notes about moving between hex., int's, chr's,
>ord's, etc, but all of these things were only riddle exercises to me
>and I have a hard time keeping them straight.  I'm pretty sure I knew
>the answer to this and now cannot find it anywhere (even googling
>through my old tutor posts!)
>
>Does anyone have a quick answer/pointer?

Try the unicode() built-in function. Read the file into a variable, apply 
the unicode() function, write the result.

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