spaces between each character?

[Dar Scott]

On May 22, 2006, at 3:05 PM, Todd Geist wrote:

> I am loading an xml file into a field using "put URL"  but there are
> spaces between each character.

This looks like highly butchered Unicode.

It looks like it was ASCII converted to UTF-16BE (the same as  
inserting NULs before each character for ASCII), then converted to  
some character set that changed the NULs to spaces and then converted  
to UTF-8 which inserted a 3-byte BOM at the front and then butchered  
by another conversion to louse up the leading 3 bytes.

If you load it as binfile:, what are the first 6 byte codes?  That  
might give a better clue.

Dar Scott