From: Logan Capaldo <logancapaldo@...>
Date: 2006-05-04T14:18:58+09:00
Subject: Re: Searching Files


On May 4, 2006, at 12:00 AM, Nathan Olberding wrote:

> 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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>

Aha, then I'm going to guess that the encoding is probably Western  
(Mac) which if I am not mistaken is a variation on ISO-8895-1.  
Although the response from file is interesting. Is it possible it was  
saved as UTF16?