How to read an UCS-2 encoded file in MATLAB?

How it is possible to read an UCS-2 encoded file in MATLAB with the function 'fopen'?

Answer 1

[MathWorks Support Team]

To load an UCS-2 encoded file with fopen, one has to set the encoding parameter of fopen.

This works like the following for the file 'example.txt':

myfid = fopen('example.txt','r', 'ieee-le', 'UCS-2' )

Specifying UCS-2 does not specify how characters beyond 255 are encoded.

The only supported encoding is UTF-8.

UCS-2 is essentially only a character list that is kept fairly synchronized with Unicode, but Unicode gets updated more often. If the difference between UCS-2 and Unicode is important to you then you are likely to be disappointed, as the MATLAB implementation of both is not kept up freshly to date.

[Walter Roberson]

Ucs-2 is not one of the supported encodings and will produce a warning message.

Specifying Ucs-2 does not specify how characters beyond 255 are encoded.

The only supported encoding is utf-8.

Ucs-2 is essentially only a character list that is kept fairly synchronized with Unicode, but Unicode gets updated more often. If the difference between Ucs-2 and Unicode is important to you then you are likely to be disappointed, as the MATLAB implementation of both is not kept up freshly to date.