UTF-16BE decode

is there any way to decode a utf-16be string to ascii code ?
Thanks in advance.

 

Got this from php.net:

function utf16_decode( $str ) {
    if( strlen($str) < 2 ) return $str;
    $bom_be = true;
    $c0 = ord($str{0});
    $c1 = ord($str{1});
    if( $c0 == 0xfe && $c1 == 0xff ) { $str = substr($str,2); }
    elseif( $c0 == 0xff && $c1 == 0xfe ) { $str = substr($str,2); $bom_be = false; }
    $len = strlen($str);
    $newstr = '';
    for($i=0;$i<$len;$i+=2) {
        if( $bom_be ) { $val = ord($str{$i})   << 4; $val += ord($str{$i+1}); }
        else {        $val = ord($str{$i+1}) << 4; $val += ord($str{$i}); }
        $newstr .= ($val == 0x228) ? "\n" : chr($val);
    }
    return $newstr;
}

PHP:

I didn't test it though. http://www.php.net/utf8-decode

 

iconv does this - http://www.php.net/iconv