From: Nathan Olberding <nathan.olberding@...>
Date: 2006-05-04T13:00:42+09:00
Subject: Re: Searching Files

Logan Capaldo wrote:
> Assuming you know the encodings of the files, you may want to look
> into iconv.
> Also check out $KCODE, or the -K command line option
> ri Iconv
> ri Iconv::iconv
> ri Iconv#iconv

I'll have to check that out. Thanks!

> What system are you on that 'cat' is so smart? (Maybe cat isn't so
> smart, the encodings may be supersets of ASCII although that makes me
> wonder why the ruby code doesn't work) Alternatively, what is the
> encodings of the files?

OpenBSD 3.8. The particular file I'm looking at as my main test subject 
was saved with TextEdit on MacOS X 10.2. In a funny twist, here's what 
the file shell command, run from BASH on OpenBSD 3.8, reports about the 
file in question:

2.txt: MPEG 1.0 Layer I, 128 kbit/s, ? Hz stereo

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