also sprach Roderick Schertler <[email protected]> [2009.11.20.0241 +0100]: > > Unfortunately, when I file-attach this file, it correctly determines > > text/plain, but it doesn't set any encoding. > > I'd have thought that the best way to deal with this is to state the > encoding explicitly: > > --type "text/plain; charset=utf-8" > > Are you suggesting it should be taken from the locale specified by the > environment? This seems rather fragile to me. Is there a better way to > do this?
It should be taken from the file. Unicode files start with 0xfeff or some such. The 'file' tool uses that to determine whether a file is multibyte or not. -- .''`. martin f. krafft <[email protected]> Related projects: : :' : proud Debian developer http://debiansystem.info `. `'` http://people.debian.org/~madduck http://vcs-pkg.org `- Debian - when you have better things to do than fixing systems "the association on this web site and in peter chappell publications, articles and books, made between remedy and diseases is used for clarity, but is not the functional reality and does not imply these resonances treat any disease. they merely vitalise and inform the self healing system." -- peter chappell
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