[racket] Writing UTF-16 to a socket/file

On Sat, Feb 12, 2011 at 2:35 PM, Gregory Woodhouse <gregwoodhouse at me.com> wrote:
> Is it possible to ensure that data written to a socket or file is encoded as UTF-16? I ask because Health Level 7 (HL7) 2.5.1 allows messages to use UTF-16 as opposed to US-ASCII, but it has to be a fixed width encoding.

Note that while HL7 may wish it to be fixed width, UTF-16 is a
variable width encoding, with some Unicode codepoints requiring 4
bytes. UCS-2 is a very similar encoding which simply cannot encode the
codepoints requiring 4 bytes in UTF-16, which might be better suited
here.
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sam th
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