character encodings

From: Jaap Karssenberg (j.g.karssenberg_at_student.utwente.nl)
Date: 11/30/03 

Date: Sun, 30 Nov 2003 17:03:02 +0100

I have a script that should read files utf8 compliant, so I used
binmode(FILE, ':utf8'). But now it appears some users have latin2
encoded files, causing some regexes to throw warnings about malformed
utf8 chars. Is there a way to detect the character encoding and DWIM ? I
would hate to have to tell my users they should convert everything to
utf8 first. 

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