UNICODE data files with SQLLDR

how can i load UNICODE data files with SQLLDR.
my Oracle instance is on UNIX with NLS_CHARACTERSET WE8ISO8859P1.
I have .dat files extracted from SQL Server using bcp utility with -w option.
When i use -c option i'm not getting the european characters correctly like the a and e with 2 dots on top....
when i load UNICODE (-w) file with CHARACTERSET UTF8 in my control file, it doesnt go thru. Any solution for this ? Thanks !

I just created a unicode textfile on windows with some westeuropean characters and imported it into we8iso8859p1 database on linux using controlfile parameter CHARACTERSET UTF16.
They got all properly converted.
As Justin mentioned, unicode on windows means generally UTF16 Little Endian.
Best regards
Maxim

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