On 9/14/07, Saifi Khan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all: > > While we are all discussing about PERL and scripting, > here is a problem that I need help with. > > The program has access to a buffer, say buf which is > terminated by either '\0' or '\0\0'. > > Write a script to figure out if the buf has UTF-8 > or UTF-16 character string and find out the i18n string.
Have you looked at Encode::* perl modules? Hope following two things helps man Encode::Guess perldoc perlunicode -krd

