dear monks,
refer to help needed in file encoding this also,
In the below,i tried to compare the BOM in order to identify whether the file is encoded in utf8 or not.
but i got problem over here ,
this program gives output as "its utf8" , for all the files even for non utf8 encoded files also.
use bytes;
open IN,"<d:\\input.txt" or print "could not open the input file";
read IN,my $text,6,0;
print "its utf8" if (chr(0xFEFF)==$text) ;
close IN;

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