From kfm-devel  Sat Jan 23 11:51:30 1999
From: Michael Reiher <michael.reiher () gmx ! de>
Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1999 11:51:30 +0000
To: kfm-devel
Subject: Mimetype recognition
X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kfm-devel&m=91902935106153

Hi,

There is a problem with the Mimetype recognition. If a text file has no
appropriate ending and contains 8bit characters, e.g. german umlauts, is
isn't recognized as a text file anymore. Last night I looked into the
kmimemagic sources and I found that the problem is that it uses the
isascii() function. The manpage says: "checks whether c is a 7-bit
unsigned char valuethat fits into the ASCII character set." And that's
the problem. I tried isprint() || isspace() but it obviously covers also
only 7bit. Does anybody have an idea how we could solve that?

Michael
 
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Michael Reiher  
     Student at Dresden University of Technology
          Department of Computer Science
               email: michael.reiher@gmx.de