Re: [9fans] file heuristics on troff input

[erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net>]

> one thing that has bugged me in the past: upas relies on file -m to
> determine the type of attachments, but file only reads the first block
> of the file, so if you've got a utf-8 file with the first non-ascii character
> beyond the 8192nd byte, you get corrupted mail.
>
> IMHO for the -m option, file should probably read the whole file,
> but there are probably good reasons for not doing so.

by upas, i believe you mean marshal and ned.  another option these
days might be to default to utf-8 and not us-ascii.  are there common
mailers that can't handle ascii when sent as utf-8?  i can't think of
any off the top of my head.

- erik