> 2009/10/19 erik quanstrom <quans...@quanstro.net>: >> why try that hard? just call it utf-8. i can't think of >> any browsers that would have a problem with that today. > > the instance of the problem that i had was when > adding an attachment to a upas mail. > file -m is useful when the attachment might be > binary.
Why not enhance "file -m" so that it is instructed to read the entire file, then? Knowing the context, adding, say, a "b" option (for "big") would not do any damage, right? ++L
