Hello @lnickt,

thanks first.
Concerning your welcome to monastery I am many years into it. But thanks nonetheless.

An early concern about late mention before I forget it: Test::utf8

<cite>This module is a collection of tests useful for dealing with utf8 strings in Perl.</cite>

I read: "dealing with utf8 strings"
This is not, what I want. I want to deal with "non-utf8" strings. They should become utf8 strings but I don't want to deal with it. I guess that's quite different.

To do an early "over all": I don't understand everything you say, I am also not native english.
So I try to answer things you name as far as I can. Something you write is irritating for me. Besides I think you're running to make the things too big, they aren't as big. They are small.

to answer your mentions:

• "I have an issue with Encode::Guess" -- you do not say what your issue is.
  my issue - at this time - is to guess what encoding the input file is.
• You do not show your expected output.
  beg your pardon
  my expected out put is: encoding is: XYZ (for XYZ replace with the correct encoding)
• You do not show your actual output.
  

  2utf8.pl
  IS ARGV[0]: Quell-DCM-new.dcm
  862--
  length(data)>0
  Unknown encoding: $encodings_test at C:/EC-Apps/strawberry/perl/lib/Encode/Guess.pm line 119.

• You posted a great deal of irrelevant code, which makes it hard to see what's going on.
  sorry for that

I've had a look on SSCCE.

<cite>An even simpler SSCCE</cite>
I don't know, what you want to tell me with this. Actually I am not able to see a relation to my case. If there is one, then sorry.

<cite>Your code looks as though you first spent time</cite>
I'm aware that different people have different strategies for software development. As for my programming experience since 1986 I believe that's a good idea to move emerging problems to solved section, every thing that emerges that is solved will not be a problem in the future.

<cite>Your script, judging by its name, appears actually to be trying to decide if a file is encoded in UTF-8.</cite>
No. my script in the future should convert some hundred files from any encoding to UTF-8. Because the files are output of at mindst 5 different tools it is no way to decide by hand what encoding they are. It has to be done by a guess.
But in this first step I want to do this first step and guess what encoding they are. And for this I tought it would be a good idea to use a standard package. Maybe I've choosen the wrong.

There's no more to say. Regards.

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