Pete Cordell scripsit: > Not useless if you're trying to tell the difference between a hand > editted Windows cp-1252 (or whatever it's called) encoded text file > and a UTF-8 encoded text file. In principle you cannot tell, but in practice it's possible to discriminate betwen the two with extremely high reliability. -- "Well, I'm back." --Sam John Cowan <cowan@xxxxxxxx>