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From:
David Cantrell
Date:
June 26, 2014 10:52
Subject:
Doco-bug for -T and -B?
Message ID:
20140626105216.GB29878@bytemark.barnyard.co.uk
For the unicodely challenged (which may include my MUA!) the funny
foreign characters in this are apparently Chinese for "text".

$ cat foo
文本
$ perl-5.20.0/bin/perl -E 'say -T "foo"'
1
$ perl-5.20.0/bin/perl -E 'say -B "foo"'
$

That's nice, it says that it's text, and not binary. However, the
documentation says:

      -T  File is an ASCII text file (heuristic guess).
      -B  File is a "binary" file (opposite of -T).

So either the doco is wrong and needs updating to drop the 'ASCII', or
it's a rubbish heuristic!

And FWIW it behaves like this at least as far back as 5.8.8.

-- 
David Cantrell | Enforcer, South London Linguistic Massive

    Seven o'clock in the morning is something that
    happens to those less fortunate than me

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