How common are UCS-16/UTF-16 files? I've run into only a few ever, and they definitely were not Perl files.
I ask because UCS-16/UTF-16 (plus the rare-as-hen's teeth UCS-32 encoding) might not be easy to implement, so I'm thinking of just leaving them out for the moment.
-- Sean M. Burke http://search.cpan.org/~sburke/