Package: file Version: 1:5.25-2 Severity: normal Hello, file will confuse a WINDOWS-1253 encoded text file for a ISO_8859-7 encoded file. If one then tries to convert it, the conversion will not be accurate.
Here is how to reproduce this: ~/foo$ echo $LANG en_US.utf8 ~/foo$ echo "αΑάΆβΒγΓδΔεΕέΈζΖηΗήΉθΘιΙίΊϊΐκΚλΛμΜνΝξΞοΟόΌπΠρΡσΣτΤυΥύΎϋΰφΦχΧψΨωΩώΏ" > greek_chars.UTF-8.txt ~/foo$ cat greek_chars.UTF-8.txt | iconv -f UTF-8 -t ISO_8859-7 > greek_chars.ISO_8859-7.txt ~/foo$ cat greek_chars.UTF-8.txt | iconv -f UTF-8 -t WINDOWS-1253 > greek_chars.WINDOWS-1253.txt ~/foo$ ls -1 greek_chars.ISO_8859-7.txt greek_chars.UTF-8.txt greek_chars.WINDOWS-1253.txt ~/foo$ file *.txt greek_chars.ISO_8859-7.txt: ISO-8859 text greek_chars.UTF-8.txt: UTF-8 Unicode text greek_chars.WINDOWS-1253.txt: ISO-8859 text For convenience, the file greek_chars.UTF-8.txt has been attached to this bug report. Sophoklis -- System Information: Debian Release: stretch/sid APT prefers stable-updates APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 3.13-1-686-pae (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) Versions of packages file depends on: ii libc6 2.19-22 ii libmagic1 1:5.25-2 ii zlib1g 1:1.2.8.dfsg-2+b1 file recommends no packages. file suggests no packages. -- no debconf information
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