Searching for CJK etc characters on electronic media

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Hello

I frequently need to search computer storage media for words in
languages such as chinese, japanese, korean, russian etc. Currently I
have been using tools that primarily display the computer values as
ASCII or hex. The search tool has no display capability for unicode
values (or glyphs).

When I re-order the UTF-16 value to hex (ie flip the bits) I get a large
number of false positive hits on the hex values. Further, when I look
at the surrounding hex values to ascertain the context of the keyword
'hit' I am finding that it is extremely difficult to deduce a meaningful
context.

Can anyone assist me with an approach and or tools that can assist with
reading and searching computer media that contains CJK etc characters?

Thanks in advance

Mike Smith

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