Re: Unicode and text files

It sounds like what you have there isn't UTF-8, but UTF-16.

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Re^2: Unicode and text files by dirtdart (Beadle) on Oct 12, 2006 at 13:49 UTC
`open FILE "<:encoding(utf16)", $myfile while(<FILE>)` [download] Produces "UTF-16:Unrecognised BOM 4a00 at backup.pl line 68." Line 68 being the while(<FILE>) line. So I'm guessing it's not UTF16. The file is produced by NTBackup if that helps any.	[reply] [d/l]
Re^3: Unicode and text files by Hue-Bond (Priest) on Oct 12, 2006 at 14:02 UTC
Try `utf16le` or `utf16be` -- David Serrano	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^4: Unicode and text files by dirtdart (Beadle) on Oct 12, 2006 at 14:05 UTC
WooHoo! utf16le it is! Now, is there any way to automagically determine what encoding a file is? Or is that something I'm just going to have to know beforehand?	[reply]
Re^5: Unicode and text files by Hue-Bond (Priest) on Oct 12, 2006 at 17:44 UTC
Re^6: Unicode and text files by dirtdart (Beadle) on Oct 12, 2006 at 19:53 UTC
Re^5: Unicode and text files by davorg (Chancellor) on Oct 13, 2006 at 07:46 UTC
Re^5: Unicode and text files by graff (Chancellor) on Oct 12, 2006 at 21:14 UTC