On Tue, 2006-08-22 at 13:43 +0200, Redoute wrote:
> Alexander Larsson wrote:
>
> >This was a bug, fixed in cvs head.
>
> Thank you very much. I will wait until this shows up in Ubuntu.
>
> Please let me repeat my first question: How does GNOME decide if a given file
> is
> a text file?
>
> Is this description correct (please guide me if there is other documentation
> than the source):
>
> - It analyses a buffer with the first 256 bytes of the file
>
> - If the file is empty -> text
>
> - (new) If the buffer contains any zero byte -> no text
>
> - If the buffer passes the test in g_utf8_validate() -> text
> - I assume g_utf8_validate() checks for valid byte sequences that are
> decodable as UTF-8
Yes
> - Does it additionally check if the resulting codepoints are
> valid/printable
> Unicode codepoints? Which codepoints are allowed?
No
>
> - the second part of _gnome_vfs_sniff_buffer_looks_like_text is compiled
> conditionally:
> #if defined(HAVE_WCTYPE_H) && defined (HAVE_MBRTOWC)
> - WC = wide char? MB = multibyte? Which character encoding/s are covered by
> this part? Is it a CJK-Issue? Is this part included in an ordinary
> european Ubuntu system?
This part tests if the test is valid in the current locales encoding.
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