Package: file
Version: 4.17-1
Severity: normal

Hi,

/usr/bin/file reports nothing for a text file encoded as utf16 although
file(1) indicates that there are checks for utf16, too. After converting
to an 8 bit encoding /usr/bin/file reports 'ASCII English text'.
According to file(1) I would expect 'character data' to be printed or at
least 'data' like is done for unknown binary rubble.

Andreas

-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (300, 'unstable'), (30, 
'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.16-1-686
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)

Versions of packages file depends on:
ii  libc6                         2.3.6-7    GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libmagic1                     4.17-1     File type determination library us
ii  zlib1g                        1:1.2.3-11 compression library - runtime

file recommends no packages.

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