in reply to Encoding Detection

UPDATE: Mar 21,2006 fixed broken link.

It isn't Perl, but this was just announced on freshmeat today, and I'll pass it on in the interest of helping you. programs for examining Unicode files . They work pretty nice.


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Re^2: Encoding Detection
by graff (Chancellor) on Mar 21, 2006 at 05:38 UTC
    Now that a year has gone by since zentara's post, a more current url for that package by Bill Poser is:

    http://www.billposer.org/Software/unidesc.html

    (The relevance of that tool set to this OP's particular question is doubtful, since it does not address non-unicode encodings at all, but the tools are bound to be interesting for people interested in unicode, in general.)