From: erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net>
To: 9fans@9fans.net
Subject: Re: [9fans] utf-8 text files from httpd
Date: Mon, 19 Oct 2009 09:55:48 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <b008d77985bd1dbdc835b9e4460fb24d@brasstown.quanstro.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <<df49a7370910190649k3179f0b1r4c877d5ca72af232@mail.gmail.com>>
On Mon Oct 19 09:51:33 EDT 2009, rogpeppe@gmail.com wrote:
> there's another problem with file -m that
> i've been bitten by before: it ignores any
> stuff after the first 6000 bytes.
>
> so if you've got a mostly-ascii file with some
> utf-8 characters 8K in, then it won't be picked up.
>
> i think file -m should read the whole file, but that's just IMHO.
a relic trying to avoid ken's read ahead
and firing up the worm drives.
why try that hard? just call it utf-8. i can't think of
any browsers that would have a problem with that today.
- erik
next parent reply other threads:[~2009-10-19 13:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <<df49a7370910190649k3179f0b1r4c877d5ca72af232@mail.gmail.com>
2009-10-19 13:55 ` erik quanstrom [this message]
2009-10-19 14:32 ` roger peppe
2009-10-19 17:36 ` lucio
[not found] <<df49a7370910190732i526a15b6o6d2822cd2d14bff0@mail.gmail.com>
2009-10-19 14:50 ` erik quanstrom
[not found] <<fe41879c0910190300l51480646pf9630e90c6f30207@mail.gmail.com>
2009-10-19 13:14 ` erik quanstrom
2009-10-19 13:49 ` roger peppe
2009-10-19 9:05 Eris Discordia
[not found] <<A6127A93-8E78-4E11-9284-56A16D2A2093@ar.aichi-u.ac.jp>
2009-10-19 4:46 ` erik quanstrom
[not found] <<fe41879c0910181734l6363baebsa896bda992d690@mail.gmail.com>
2009-10-19 1:37 ` erik quanstrom
2009-10-19 10:00 ` Akshat Kumar
2009-10-19 12:45 ` Kenji Arisawa
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2009-10-19 0:34 Akshat Kumar
2009-10-19 1:39 ` andrey mirtchovski
2009-10-19 2:16 ` Kenji Arisawa
2009-10-19 3:35 ` Kenji Arisawa
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