onsdag den 12 januari 2011 klockan 23:17 skrev Muammar El Khatib detta:
> On Wed, Jan 12, 2011 at 02:47:28AM +0100, Jakub Wilk wrote:
> > * Muammar El Khatib <muammarelkha...@gmail.com>, 2011-01-12, 00:49:
> > >$ file debian/copyright
> > >debian/copyright: ASCII Pascal program text
> >
> > Uhm, sorry, no, file cannot be used to determine encodings. Besides,
> > UTF-8 is a superset of ASCII, so everything is all right according
> > to file.
>
> What would you suggest to me for determining encodings? Something like enca
> can
> be useful in these cases?
The method of Lintian (in /usr/share/lintian/lib/Util.pm, function
file_is_encoded_in_non_utf8) is to apply
iconf -f utf-8 -t utf-8 filename
and evaluate the presence of an error, which then proves non-UTF-8
to be at hand.
Best regards,
Mats Erik Andersson, DM
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