Yeah, that was more or less my approach to analysis for these files. Essentially it was an export that was quasi-aware of Unicode and dumped out certain fields

Yeah, that was more or less my approach to analysis for these files. Essentially it was an export that was quasi-aware of Unicode and dumped out certain fields (of course they had to be variable length) in their original encodings, whatever they were. I got more than a few of these. Unicode is great, as long as everyone upstream follows all of the rules and nothing goes wrong.