[openbeos] Re: Identifying Text Files

On 2006-06-09 at 23:57:24 [+0200], Axel Dörfler <axeld@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 
wrote:
> Ingo Weinhold <bonefish@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On 2006-06-09 at 13:13:35 [+0200], Axel Dörfler <axeld@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > > wrote:
> > > I would add special rule semantics for this, ie. a "text" rule and
> > > an
> > > "ascii" rule where the former would accept UTF-8 and the latter
> > > plain
> > > ASCII only, maybe even with a method to specify the minimal
> > > congruence.
> > I don't quite understand what you mean. I would simply take
> > ascmagic.c,
> > adjust it (to C++, parameters/return types of the identification
> > function,
> > strip things I don't need) and return the type it finds.
> 
> I would have enlarged the sniffer rule language for something like
> this:
> 0.5 [0:511] text
> 
> With add-ons, it's probably not a good idea to do it like this.

And that would trigger a built-in check, I suppose?

> I am
> also not fond of the idea of having any real add-ons in the registrar,
> especially third party ones (crashing that one is a very bad idea).

Yep, I feel the same. For the time being real add-ons aren't supported, 
only built-ins. Since there was the vague idea of an index server and 
moving the background MIME sniffing stuff into that one too, actual add-ons 
could be supported by it as well.

CU, Ingo

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