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From: erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net>
Date: Mon, 19 Oct 2009 19:59:12 -0400
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Subject: [9fans] file -m and charsets
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i put a proposed change to file(1) on sources.
new rules:
1.  if -m is given, and the file is text/*, then
while neither
	a.  nulls or bad runes appear, or
	b.  both latin1 and utf appear
generate a histogram of the file
if a or b hold, then promote to application/octet-stream.
3.  -c, a flag of dubious utility, supresses charsets.

this version of file is *not* compatable with
marshal.  but that's not a big job.  i'll do it if
these changes to file seem promising.

- erik