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Subbu commented on TIKA-4370:
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[~tallison] thanks for the response.
Right, The problem is not specific to text file vs binary. I am trying to
detect Shift-JIS encoded file types and as the magic bytes are mostly UTF8
based we get back application/octet-stream without file names.
Do you think it's worthwhile for me to consider something like, trying to
convert input to Shift-JIS and using for prefix in
[https://github.com/apache/tika/blob/9a6bda5fadcc4c287926ec3361c6f398d113eab0/tika-core/src/main/java/org/apache/tika/mime/MimeTypes.java#L527?]
Or some other way to support Shift-JIS that could be a starting point?
> SJIS Encoded Files Can't be Detected
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> Key: TIKA-4370
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/TIKA-4370
> Project: Tika
> Issue Type: Bug
> Reporter: Subbu
> Priority: Major
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> When character encoding of file is SJIS, without file name in the metadata,
> most files content-type detected as application/octet-stream. Is there zero
> support for SJIS?
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