Re: Questions about MIME type detection

[Alexander Larsson <alexl redhat com>]

On Tue, 2006-08-22 at 18:15 +0200, Redoute wrote:
> Alexander Larsson wrote:
> 
> >> - the second part of _gnome_vfs_sniff_buffer_looks_like_text is compiled 
> >>   conditionally:
> >>   #if defined(HAVE_WCTYPE_H) && defined (HAVE_MBRTOWC)
> >>   - WC = wide char? MB = multibyte? Which character encoding/s are covered by 
> >>     this part? Is it a CJK-Issue? Is this part included in an ordinary 
> >>     european Ubuntu system?
> > 
> > This part tests if the test is valid in the current locales encoding.
> 
> So with LC_ALL="de_DE.UTF-8" the file will again be checked against
> UTF-8? I didn't expect that!

Maybe we should skip that part if the locale encoding is utf8.

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