File non-types

Why can't we have a decent file typing system on UNIX? I made some changes to LnBlog and now, for some reason, Konqueror thinks that my ChangeLog is Java source code. What?!? I'm not a Java programmer, but I'm pretty sure a ChangeLog doesn't look like Java code. Even worse, in a fit of optimism I actually tried to use the 'file' command (use file - what was I thinking?!?) to check the file type, and it told me the ChangeLog was "ASCII C++ program text." Oddly enough, it actually got most of the other files right, aside from some PHP templates it thought were ASCII text and those CSS files it thought were C source code.

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