tags 472791 unreproducible
thanks

Martin Marques wrote...

> file reports text/plain charset=iso-8859-1 on testing, but has non 
> textual chars. etch's package reports application/octet-stream.
> 
> An example would be: GABÃ\x7FS. That defently isn't LATIN1.

Hello,

unfortunately, I could not reproduce this on neither etch nor lenny,
nor in any current Debian release. Can you provide an example
with all 8-bit characters escaped to avoid any confusion due to
character conversion?

What I see here is:

$ printf 'GAB\xc3\x8a\x7Fs' | file - -b -i
text/plain; charset=ebcdic

Or, assuming input was supposed to be ISO-8859-1:

$ printf 'GAB\xc3\x7Fs' | file - -b -i
text/plain; charset=ebcdic

"EBCDIC" doesn't look sane either, but that's a different story.

    Christoph

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