Package: moreutils Version: 0.25 Severity: normal >From the isutf8(1) manpage: ,---- | EXIT STATUS | If the file is valid UTF-8, the exit status is zero. If the | file is not valid UTF-8, or there is some error, the exit | status is non-zero. `----
>From experience: ,---- | [EMAIL PROTECTED] /tmp/test $ locale | LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8 | LC_CTYPE="fr_FR.UTF-8" | LC_NUMERIC="fr_FR.UTF-8" | LC_TIME="fr_FR.UTF-8" | LC_COLLATE="fr_FR.UTF-8" | LC_MONETARY="fr_FR.UTF-8" | LC_MESSAGES="fr_FR.UTF-8" | LC_PAPER="fr_FR.UTF-8" | LC_NAME="fr_FR.UTF-8" | LC_ADDRESS="fr_FR.UTF-8" | LC_TELEPHONE="fr_FR.UTF-8" | LC_MEASUREMENT="fr_FR.UTF-8" | LC_IDENTIFICATION="fr_FR.UTF-8" | LC_ALL= | [EMAIL PROTECTED] /tmp/test $ echo "e with acute is é" > utf8.txt | [EMAIL PROTECTED] /tmp/test $ iconv --from=utf8 --to=latin1 < utf8.txt > latin1.txt | [EMAIL PROTECTED] /tmp/test $ file * | latin1.txt: ISO-8859 text | utf8.txt: UTF-8 Unicode text | [EMAIL PROTECTED] /tmp/test $ isutf8 latin1.txt ; echo $? | latin1.txt: line 1, char 1, byte offset 17: invalid UTF-8 code | 0 | [EMAIL PROTECTED] /tmp/test $ isutf8 utf8.txt ; echo $? | 1 | [EMAIL PROTECTED] /tmp/test $ `---- One or the other should be fixed. Roland. -- System Information: Debian Release: lenny/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.22-3-k7 (SMP w/1 CPU core) Locale: LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages moreutils depends on: ii libc6 2.7-2 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii perl 5.8.8-12 Larry Wall's Practical Extraction moreutils recommends no packages. -- no debconf information
