[File] Erroneous byte in Magdir/msdos?

[Sudarshan S Chawathe]

Christos Zoulas <christos at zoulas.com>:
> On 2025-02-12 9:49 am, Jason Summers wrote:
> > If the encoding of pattern files is documented somewhere, I'd like to
> > see it. I couldn't find anything when I researched it for Mgchkj
> > (https://github.com/jsummers/mgchkj). There's no single encoding that
> > is valid for all the current patterns and comments.
> > Of course, you can use 'file' itself to tell you which files are not
> > valid UTF-8. Mgchkj is more precise, and it does warn about the issue
> > you're reporting:
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> 
> These are all iso-8859-1 characters German: "SS", (R), ordinal
> indicator, o with umlaut.
> I have replaced them with their ascii equivalent.

Thanks for both the replies (and the fixes).  Do the fixes (converting
to ASCII) imply that the files in Magdir should all be ASCII encoded?
I'm thinking here of future edits or additions.

Regards,

-chaw