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The linux command strings looks for ASCII strings in a binary file.
Are there any command line tools to show UTF-8 strings in a binary file?
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This error is created when the uploaded file is not in a UTF-8 format. UTF-8 is the dominant character encoding format on the World Wide Web. This error occurs because the software you are using saves the file in a different type of encoding, such as ISO-8859, instead of UTF-8.
Any ASCII string is a valid UTF-8 string. An ASCII character is simply a byte value in [0,127] or [0x00, 0x7F] in hexadecimal. That is, the most significant bit is always zero. However, there are many more unicode characters than can be represented using a single byte.
UTF-8 encodes a character into a binary string of one, two, three, or four bytes. UTF-16 encodes a Unicode character into a string of either two or four bytes. This distinction is evident from their names. In UTF-8, the smallest binary representation of a character is one byte, or eight bits.
UTF-8 is unique because it represents characters in one-byte units that contain 8 bits each hence the “-8” suffix. Non-UTF-8 characters are characters that are not supported by UTF-8 encoding and, they may include symbols or characters from foreign unsupported languages.
The strings command supports the --encoding option. Check the man page.
But however, I failed to extract UTF-8 strings using any possible option value. Currently searching their mailing list. will update this if I find more help
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