[ILUG] International configuration

Nick Murtagh murtaghn at tcd.ie
Mon Mar 4 16:22:45 GMT 2002


On Monday 04 March 2002 16:23, Kevin O Riordan wrote:
> I dunno where it get's its language recognition from, it's not linked
> against any fancy international libs - must be in glibc.

It's more character set recognition that anything - take out the 
non-ASCII characters and won't be able to tell. My version of file
says things like:

  file.txt: ISO-8859 text
  file.txt: ASCII text




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