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[openbeos] Re: Identifying Text Files

  • From: "Alexander G. M. Smith" <agmsmith@xxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: openbeos@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Thu, 08 Jun 2006 22:34:31 -0400 EDT
Ingo Weinhold wrote on Thu, 08 Jun 2006 21:47:11 +0200:
> A simple but maybe a bit ignorant approach would be to check whether the 
> buffer contains valid UTF-8 characters only (or more than, say, 95%). But 
> maybe someone has better ideas...

Also how about line endings and other character sets like Windows-ANSI?
I know Gobe Productive did something magic, and also treated text files
as spreadsheets if it found tab characters in them.

- Alex





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