[File] ASCII text detected as data

[Aman Sharma]

Hi Christos,


Any follow up on this? I just noticed there is a typo in the email. "Had it been some" ignore this.


Regards,
Aman Sharma

PhD Student
KTH Royal Institute of Technology
School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS)
Department of Theoretical Computer Science (TCS)
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________________________________
From: Aman Sharma
Sent: Monday, March 17, 2025 7:26:54 PM
To: Christos Zoulas
Cc: file at astron.com
Subject: Re: [File] ASCII text detected as data


Hi,


Thanks for the response! I had overlooked as I was too fixated with the diff.

If this is the case, shouldn't the ouput of file be `Unicode text, UTF-8 text`? I verified the following with Python code as well. It does fail for encoding="ascii".


```

codecs.open("ref", encoding="utf-8", errors="strict").readlines()

```


Had it been some


Regards,
Aman Sharma

PhD Student
KTH Royal Institute of Technology
School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS)
Department of Theoretical Computer Science (TCS)
<http://www.kth.se><https://www.kth.se/profile/amansha><https://www.kth.se/profile/amansha>
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From: Christos Zoulas <christos at zoulas.com>
Sent: Saturday, March 15, 2025 6:33:03 PM
To: Aman Sharma
Cc: file at astron.com
Subject: Re: [File] ASCII text detected as data

They contain non-ascii characters eg:

 Ga \xc3\xa9\xc3\xa9n stap verder

christos

> On Mar 15, 2025, at 12:16 PM, Vadim <vad.mailingfile at vad.cx> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> > xxd -s 0x5a30 -l 16 -g 1 reb
> > xxd -s 0x5ed0 -l 16 -g 1 ref
>
> shows "0x1e" character, that's ASCII control char "record separator".
>
> xxd highlights UTF-8 characters in red too.
>
> Cheers,
> Vadim
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