Unicode.txt to binary matrix & vice versa

I have a text file greek.txt. It is in unicode and it has the content:

??????

How can I get the unicode values of these letters to a Matlab matrix?

Using http://software.ellerton.net/txt2bin/ I see that the matrix would be

A =

     1111000110
     1111000001
     1110110101
     1111000011
     1111101110110
     1110111101

if I succeeded in this I could very easily do some text editing for my task.

Vice versa, if I have a matrix

I have a text file greek.txt. It is in unicode and it has the content:

??????

How can I get the unicode values of these letters to a Matlab matrix?

Using http://software.ellerton.net/txt2bin/ I see that the matrix would be

A =

     1111000110
     1111000001
     1110110101
     1111000011
     1111101110110
     1110111101

how can I produce a text file greek.txt from it such that it says

??????

I have spent too many hours on the internet trying to solve this. Thanks for help.

[Juha-Matti Huusko]

and I see that the greek letters have become to ??????

they are

phi rho epsilon sigma iota nu

and they form a word

Answer 1

[Jan]

I'm not sure if this does what you need, but it is worth to try:

FID = fopen(FileName, 'rt', '', 'UTF-8');
Data = fread(FID, 6, 'char');
dec2bin(Data)
fclose(FID);

Read the help text of FOPEN for other encoding schemes.

If your file is UTF16 encoded, this could work also:

FID = fopen(FileName, 'r');
Data = fread(FID, 6, 'uint16');
dec2bin(Data)
fclose(FID);

[Walter Roberson]

You might need to use '*char' insted of 'char' in the first possibility.

[Jan]

@Walter: '*char' replies a CHAR array, 'char' replies a DOUBLE array. Both are valid inputs for DEC2BIN.

@Jussi: Please use '*char' if this works better. Perhaps NATIVE2UNICODE and UNICODE2NATIVE are useful also.