The dos2unix in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 converts character '0x0000' of UTF-16LE file to null char.

Solution Verified - Updated 2024-10-29T13:00:10+00:00 -

Issue

When using the dos2unix to convert a file exported from a SQL database, the output generated in RHEL7 is different with the one generated in RHEL8. Additional null chars 0x00 are found in the RHEL8's result.

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