01-04-2013
Well, utf-8 and unicode have a pattern in their encoding. The dd command has an ebcdic decoder I have used. Might it be from big blue land?
Googling around the subject, one suggests file -i, another mentions enca
http://linux.die.net/man/1/enca and for solaris, auto_ef. There is a 'chardet' python based tool.
Last edited by DGPickett; 01-04-2013 at 04:35 PM..
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