Re: txt encoding conversion

From: Joe Feise (me_at_privacy.net)
Date: 10/20/05 

Date: Wed, 19 Oct 2005 16:36:05 -0700

alejo wrote on 10/19/2005 10:20:
>>>using "file" on a txt file I just get "ASCII text", whatever the
>>>encoding is.
>>
>>You are still talking in Win-doze mode. Just because a file ends with
>>the three letters txt does not mean that file will declare it to be
>>ASCII text. Fortunately, the Unix/linux file tools are more intelligent
>>than to believe that the end of a file name imbues a file with magical
>>properties.
>
>
> I know it: in fact I didn't say it did depend on the extension...
> If I ran "file" it just tells me whether it is an ASCII text or not, but
> it doesn't tell me which encoding it is.

You can't get any information of the encoding because that's not stored
in the file.

-Joe

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