>>>>> "Pete" == Lancashire, Pete <plancashire@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: Pete> ok 7 BIT :-), in my frustration should have said single Pete> byte ... well I did it with a perl hack i.e. skip the first Pete> 2 bytes and send to stdout every other byte... So you are assuming UTF-16BE (or LE if it's the odd numbered bytes you are sending), and that every odd (or even) byte is zero. In that case you could just use iconv with the (assumed) encoding specified (UTF-16 - iconv will read the BOM and get the endianess right) , and you should get a decent error message if your assumption is wrong. -- Colin Adams Preston Lancashire -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list