Package: file
Version: 5.04-1
Severity: wishlist

On a LaTeX file, one currently gets:

  LaTeX 2e document text

It would be useful to have the encoding too, e.g.

  ISO-8859-1 LaTeX 2e document text
  UTF-8 LaTeX 2e document text

so that one can automatically call iconv via LESSOPEN when viewing
a file with "less", for instance.

On LaTeX files, the encoding can be obtained unambiguously (well,
in practice) by looking at \usepackage[...]{inputenc} commands,
e.g.

  \usepackage[latin1]{inputenc}
  \usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}

Note: ignore everything that is after a "%" character, as one
sometimes comments out such commands with it.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.30-2-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=POSIX, LC_CTYPE=en_US.ISO8859-1 (charmap=ISO-8859-1)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages file depends on:
ii  libc6                   2.10.2-6         Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii  libmagic1               5.04-1           File type determination library us
ii  zlib1g                  1:1.2.3.4.dfsg-3 compression library - runtime

file recommends no packages.

file suggests no packages.

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