On Mon Oct 19 09:51:33 EDT 2009, rogpe...@gmail.com wrote: > there's another problem with file -m that > i've been bitten by before: it ignores any > stuff after the first 6000 bytes. > > so if you've got a mostly-ascii file with some > utf-8 characters 8K in, then it won't be picked up. > > i think file -m should read the whole file, but that's just IMHO.
a relic trying to avoid ken's read ahead and firing up the worm drives. why try that hard? just call it utf-8. i can't think of any browsers that would have a problem with that today. - erik
