From: Brian Candler <b.candler@...>
Date: 2010-07-12T17:47:58+09:00
Subject: Re: how to convert it into utf-8?

Pen Ttt wrote:
> pt@pt-laptop:~$ file /home/pt/myday
> /home/pt/myday: data

'file' knows many file formats - look at /usr/share/file/magic or 
/etc/magic depending on your system. But this isn't one of them. Neither 
is the data UTF-8 text, or at least, the header isn't.

You could look to see if there are any snippets of readable text in it:

    strings /home/pt/myday | less

But if not, then it really is just binary data, and its meaning will 
depend on what program wrote it in the first place.
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