[File] ASCII text detected as data

Christos Zoulas christos at zoulas.com
Sat Mar 15 17:33:03 UTC 2025


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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