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Date: Mon, 19 Oct 2009 14:49:07 +0100
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From: roger peppe <rogpeppe@gmail.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
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Subject: Re: [9fans] utf-8 text files from httpd
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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.