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bug#22838: New 'Binary file' detection considered harmful


From: Eric Blake
Subject: 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.

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

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