On Sun, Jan 07, 2007 at 08:11:38PM +0100, Jan Engelhardt wrote: > > On Jan 7 2007 17:06, Russell King wrote: > >On Mon, Jan 08, 2007 at 12:29:05AM +0800, David Woodhouse wrote: > > > >$ git log | head -n 1000 | tail -n 200 > o > >$ file -i o > >o: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > >$ git log | head -n 1000 | tail -n 300 > o > >$ file -i o > >o: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > >$ git log | head -n 1000 | tail -n 400 > o > >$ file -i o > >o: text/plain; charset=utf-8 > > I am inclined to say that "file" does not count, because it tries to guess an > ambiguous mapping from bytes to character set. Even more, file should be > _unable at all_ to distinguish an iso-8859-1 from an iso-8859-2 (or worse: 15) > file. This program is soo... forget it, it's not an argument. It works well > for > headerful files, but text files don't really contain one. The next best thing > would be html, with a proper <meta http-equiv=Content> tag.
You're discarding a perfectly reasonable argument - file itself obviously is not good at guessing the charset, but inspecting the resulting file manually and identifying *both* ISO-8859 and UTF-8 character sequences in there is pretty conclusive. As I did indeed do prior to sending that message. In this case, 'file' was doing a remarkably accurate job. -- Russell King Linux kernel 2.6 ARM Linux - http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/ maintainer of: - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
