Re: [Issue 2194] Unicde UTF-16 files detected as binary

On Wed, 5 Jan 2005, Max Bowsher wrote:

> Peter N. Lundblad wrote:
> I agree with what you are saying, but what 2194 was saying was "UTF-16
> should be detected as textual".
>
Yes, it is more complicated than that, since it is an enconding where a
line break is not one or two bytes, and for some other reasons. Still, I
think we really need to support other Unicode encodings thatn UTF8, like
we support other 8-bit encodings.

> IMO, given the current level of software support for UTF-16, it is more
> binary than text.
>
I don't agree. Will make a comment on this on users@ to give Berry some
support:-)

Regards,
//Peter

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Received on Wed Jan 5 21:37:36 2005