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| ID | Project | Category | View Status | Date Submitted | Last Update |
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| 0000256 | file | General | public | 2021-04-02 18:41 | 2021-04-19 18:38 |
| Reporter | mutableVoid | Assigned To | christos | ||
| Priority | normal | Severity | major | Reproducibility | always |
| Status | resolved | Resolution | fixed | ||
| Product Version | 5.40 | ||||
| Fixed in Version | 5.41 | ||||
| Summary | 0000256: Wrong file type for file with one-bit char before new-line | ||||
| Description | When I execute `file` on a file that contains only a single (one-byte) character before the newline which terminates the file, the reported file type is binary instead of Unicode text (see section: Steps to reproduce). This messes which programs like `more`, which therefore refuse to print the file's content, as the reported file type is binary. I encountered this in the following scenario: ```bash > printf 'h\n' > file2 > more file2 ******** file2: Not a text file ******** > od -x file2 0000000 0a68 0000002 ``` When I fill the file with a character that takes more than a single byte in Unicode, the problem does not occur: ```bash printf 'รค\n' > new_file file new_file new_file: Unicode text, UTF-8 text ``` | ||||
| Steps To Reproduce | ```bash printf 'h\n' > new_file file new_file ``` prints `new_file: data` instead of the expected `new_file: Unicode text, UTF-8 text` | ||||
| Tags | No tags attached. | ||||
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Might be related to the fix of bugs.astron.com/view.php?id=180 , printing the same character multiple times also reports `binary` instead of UTF-8 text: printf 'aa\n' > new_file file new_file new_file: data |
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Fixed, thanks! |
| Date Modified | Username | Field | Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021-04-02 18:41 | mutableVoid | New Issue | |
| 2021-04-02 19:03 | mutableVoid | Note Added: 0003582 | |
| 2021-04-19 18:38 | christos | Assigned To | => christos |
| 2021-04-19 18:38 | christos | Status | new => assigned |
| 2021-04-19 18:38 | christos | Status | assigned => resolved |
| 2021-04-19 18:38 | christos | Resolution | open => fixed |
| 2021-04-19 18:38 | christos | Fixed in Version | => 5.41 |
| 2021-04-19 18:38 | christos | Note Added: 0003590 |
