Public bug reported:
If a text file includes some accented characters then flip incorrectly
deems it to be binary, so skips converting it. It only seems to convert
(without -b) files containing only Ascii characters.
This is with flip 1.20-1.
For example, using the attached ingredients.txt:
$ flip -uv ingredients.txt
ingredients.txt: binary file, not converted
I expected that it would convert ingredients.txt, since it is a text
file.
But file detects it as being text:
$ file ingredients.txt
ingredients.txt: UTF-8 Unicode text
As does Perl:
$ perl -wE 'say "$_ is ", -T $_ ? q[text] : q[binary] foreach @ARGV'
ingredients.txt risotto.jpg
ingredients.txt is text
risotto.jpg is binary
And dos2unix spots that it is text, while also managing to avoid processing an
actual binary file:
$ dos2unix ingredients.txt risotto.jpg
dos2unix: converting file ingredients.txt to Unix format ...
dos2unix: Skipping binary file risotto.jpg
So ideally flip's heuristic for determining what's a text file would be
tweaked to agree with those other utilities.
Alternatively, flip's manpage should document that it's limited to Ascii
files. (I know I can use -b to override the heuristic, but that's
problematic when mass-converting a bunch of files where some of them are
actually binary files.)
Thanks.
** Affects: flip (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Attachment added: "sample text file, with accented characters"
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1199404/+attachment/3730665/+files/ingredients.txt
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