utfconv is the fast way to convert []byte to string by chooing charset
Make sure you have the a working Go environment. See the install instructions.
To install utfcon.go, simply run:
go get github.com/xsoameix/utfconv
To compile it from source:
git clone git@github.com:xsoameix/utfconv.git
cd utfconv && go build
package main
import (
"github.com/xsoameix/utfconv"
)
func main() {
utf8 := []byte("Hello, world")
utf16be := []byte("\x00\x48\x00\x65\x00\x6C" +
"\x00\x6C\x00\x6F\x00\x2C\x00\x20"+
"\x00\x77\x00\x6F\x00\x72\x00\x6C"+
"\x00\x64")
fmt.Printf("%s\n%s\n",
utfconv.Read("utf8", utf8),
utfconv.Read("utf16be", utf16be))
}
To run the application, put the code in a file called hello.go and run:
go build hello.go