Bug#45015: Opening of UTF-16 files is broken

Package: kate
Version: 2.0 (using KDE 3.0.2 )
Severity: normal
Installed from:    compiled sources
Compiler:          gcc version 2.95.3 20010315 (release) [FreeBSD]
OS:                FreeBSD (i386) release 4.6-RC
OS/Compiler notes: 

When selecting 'utf16' as file encoding it is opened
with individual 0d bytes
treated as newlines.  It
is wrong because UTF-16
is 16 bit encoding.  Consider
this sample file that has
letter č (c caron):
$ hexdump /tmp/t
0000000 feff 010d                              
0000004


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