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/
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