in reply to Help with raw data.

vim 6.0 added support for unicode, so you might try that for viewing it.

For converting to hex, I would try a hex dumping program (search for one on Google--I think there is also a vim script for one). Once you have that, you can encode it into a regex using a unicode escape.

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