Re: Binutils wishlist: Enhancement of 'strings' for Unicode strings

[Claus Fischer]

On Fri, Mar 01, 2002 at 09:25:31AM +0000, Nick Clifton wrote:
: Hi Claus,
: 
: > I recently had to extract a version information from a Windows
: > OCX file. The version info is stored as a Unicode string in the
: > format "0, 15, 9, 3". Note that the binary is not all Unicode,
: > only a few so-called 'resources' are.
: 
: Have you tried using the latest CVS snapshots ?  (Or the about to be
: released 2-12 version).  The strings there has support different
: character set encodings, include 16-bit.

I will try it.
However I fear that this will not properly work since the executable
is mainly a binary, and most strings in it are 8bit ISO-8859,
only a few are 16bit Unicode. So a strings command which is capable
of recognizing both would be highly desirable.

Claus

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