On Wed, 29 Dec 2004 23:16:24 -0500, Jeff Finn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > hey all, > > I have a group of files in a directory on a linux box where the file names > are either encoded with utf-8 or shift_jis. Unfortunately, not knowing > japanese, I have no idea which is which. Is there a way to go through the > directory and determine how the filenames are encoded? Ultimately, I want > to put this directory listing on the web, and I want the browser to be able > to display the correct names of all files without having to manually toggle > the charecter encoding.
I've never used it but the Jcode module exports a getcode function that looks like it will do what you want. The documentation for Jcode suggests that it should be superceded in Perl 5.8 by the Encode module, but I didn't browse its documentation enough to verify that. Cheers, Ben _______________________________________________ Boston-pm mailing list [email protected] http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/boston-pm
