The last time I heard anything, Gutcheck was designed to work on ascii files, so it seems to work as intended. I think Bookloupe is supposed to work on unicode, so you may want to look into using that.
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The last time I heard anything, Gutcheck was designed to work on ascii files, so it seems to work as intended. I think Bookloupe is supposed to work on unicode, so you may want to look into using that.