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</head><body>I had a look at the unicode library of erlang and it contained following BIFs<br><br>bin_is_7bit/1<br>bom_to_encoding/1<br>characters_to_binary/1<br>characters_to_binary/2<br>characters_to_binary/3<br>characters_to_binary_int/2<br>characters_to_list/1<br>characters_to_list/2<br>characters_to_list_int/2<br>encoding_to_bom/1<br>module_info/0<br>module_info/1<br><br>But what I have is already a binary and I need it to convert into string,or given the erlang's logic of storing string as a list of characters I need binary to list converter but there isn't any as it looks like to me.<br><br>Please share suggestions.<br><br>> On May 10, 2017 at 4:37 PM Hugo Mills <hugo@carfax.org.uk> wrote:<br>> <br>> <br>> On Wed, May 10, 2017 at 04:11:18PM +0530, Abhishek Ranjan wrote:<br>> > I have set up a chat application using ejabberd(built using erlang) and Pidgin.<br>> > <br>> > I have witnessed a proceeding where when I print out a message sent by the client to server on ejabberd it comes out as string <br>> > <br>> > For example,if I send a message as<br>> > <br>> > aman<br>> > <br>> > from the pidgin and print it inside the module containing ejabberd hook as CustomMod.erl using<br>> > <br>> > > <br>> > > Bin=xmpp:get_text(Packet#message.body),<br>> > > Name=binary_to_list(Bin),<br>> > > <br>> > > ?INFO_MSG("The value of Name is ~p~n",[Name]), <br>> > > <br>> > <br>> > the output comes as "aman"<br>> > <br>> > but I have a simple erlang module also for login as login.erl and it does not implement any ejabberd behavior, but is called from within CustomMod.erl when I print this message out in this module it comes enclosed within these << >> but are separated by 0's like<br>> > <br>> > aman becomes here as <<97,0,109,0,97,0,110,0>><br>> <br>> That looks like little-endian UTF-16 to me. You probably need to do<br>> some Unicode conversion on your binary.<br>> <br>> Hugo.<br>> <br>> > which on doing binary_to_list(Variable) inside my login.erl I get-> [97,0,109,0,97,0,110,0]<br>> > <br>> > (where Variable is the value enclosed within <<>>)<br>> > <br>> > Can anyone tell me why is it happening and what is the way to get the value aman in login.erl also?<br>> > <br>> > <br>> > Regards,<br>> > <br>> > Abhishek <br>> <br>> > _______________________________________________<br>> > erlang-questions mailing list<br>> > erlang-questions@erlang.org<br>> > http://erlang.org/mailman/listinfo/erlang-questions<br>> <br>> <br>> -- <br>> Hugo Mills | There are two hard problems in computer science:<br>> hugo@... carfax.org.uk | Cache invalidation, naming things, and off-by-one<br>> http://carfax.org.uk/ | errors.<br>> PGP: E2AB1DE4 |<br></body></html>