Re: Mule autodetection is crap

Alexey> and I don's see anything except for UTF*, UCS, iso2022, Alexey> big5 and shift-jis. Well, that covers almost everything except KOI8 and Devanagari. :-) Alexey> No wonder it does not know about koi8-r :) What's the Alexey> status of additional detectors now? Will Ben write Alexey> missing ones himself, or is it expected that someone takes Alexey> this job? :) Or they aren't really missing? I'm sure they're ... ahh ... "unimplemented". :-) The problem is that both writing and testing detectors, especially the latter, requires familiarity with the language and access to a variety of natural texts. Somebody (Ben or me or ...) will eventually get around to writing them. However, the most effective method would be for you or another native speaker to dive in. Ben is normally eager to work with people who are doing this kind of work, although you do have to keep after him (eg, write him directly, and so on; his medical condition makes it difficult for him to follow the mailing lists etc much of the time). Note that Ben will not be back from Thailand until Jan 18, and probably will be catching up with school and so on for the first two weeks. Adjust to fit your own schedule, but from the point of view of getting his attention I'd say writing him around Jan 25, especially if you have some code in hand by then, is optimal timing. Feel free to post to the -beta or -mule lists any time. I know that the Japanese are feeling very constrained by the current state of Mule, too, so there may be people willing to help each other even though the language specifics are different. I'll help, too, if I can, but at this point all I know is that the detection stuff has changed. :-) -- Institute of Policy and Planning Sciences http://turnbull.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp University of Tsukuba Tennodai 1-1-1 Tsukuba 305-8573 JAPAN Ask not how you can "do" free software business; ask what your business can "do for" free software.