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Re: Strings & Unicode

Subject: Re: Strings & Unicode
Date: Fri, 20 Aug 2004 12:57:35 +0200
On 2004-08-17 Byrne Ghavalas wrote:
While completing some work for a particular project, I was examining
various Win32 files (executables and DLL's) as well as a few MS Word
Documents.

I know that many applications store strings in Unicode format and
because I didn't RTFM, was frustrated that "strings" did not pick them
out... Well, at least it didn't used to pick them out and I've never
assumed different.

I noticed that Strings from the GNU binutils has the ability to find
16-bit strings,  using the '-e' (encoding) option.

On the Windows platform you could use Sysinternals' strings utility [1].
It scans by default for Unicode and ASCII strings.

[1] http://www.sysinternals.com/ntw2k/source/misc.shtml#strings

Regards
Ansgar Wiechers
-- 
"Those who would give up liberty for a little temporary safety
deserve neither liberty nor safety, and will lose both."
--Benjamin Franklin

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