GNU bug report logs - #22838
New 'Binary file' detection considered harmful

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Reported by: Marcello Perathoner <marcello <at> perathoner.de>

Date: Sun, 28 Feb 2016 18:13:01 UTC

Severity: normal

Done: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #14 received at 22838 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eric Blake <eblake <at> redhat.com>
To: Marcello Perathoner <marcello <at> perathoner.de>,
 Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>, 22838 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#22838: New 'Binary file' detection considered harmful
Date: Mon, 29 Feb 2016 10:22:22 -0700

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On 02/29/2016 10:14 AM, Marcello Perathoner wrote:
> 
> A text file with encoding problems is a text file and not a binary file.

Wrong, at least according to the POSIX definition of text file.  A text
file is one with no encoding errors.

-- 
Eric Blake   eblake redhat com    +1-919-301-3266
Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org


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