[PLUG] getting a file's character set?

[Wil Cooley]

On Mon, 2008-06-23 at 16:15 -0700, Rich Shepard wrote:
> On Mon, 23 Jun 2008, Brent Rieck wrote:
> 
> > I can't seem to make it output a character set, I get mime types and type
> > of file but no character sets (ie: windows-1250 or utf-8) - does your file
> > command determine character sets?
> 
>    man file shows no option to reveal the character set used to display the
> file.

Because it's not optional, it's just part of the description:

$ file test
test: ASCII English text
$ vim test (here I add a Unicode character)
$ file test
test: UTF-8 Unicode English text

That said, file(1) doesn't look at the whole file and as Randal said, if
it's not specified as it is in XML, it's just a guess.

My file(1) is the stock with Fedora 9; 4.23 from
http://www.darwinsys.com/file/.

Wil
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