It should be feasible to implement your own codec for that based on Lib/encodings/utf_16.py. Simply replace the line in StreamReader.decode(): raise UnicodeError,"UTF-16 stream does not start with BOM" with: self.decode = codecs.utf_16_be_decode and you should be done.
raise UnicodeError,"UTF-16 stream does not start with BOM"
self.decode = codecs.utf_16_be_decode
Bye,—Walter
Oops, this only works if you have a big endian system. Otherwise you have to redecode the input with: codecs.utf_16_ex_decode(input, errors, 1, False)
codecs.utf_16_ex_decode(input, errors, 1, False)