On 02/29/2016 10:54 AM, Eric Blake wrote: > Encoding errors are not characters, but bytes. A line cannot contain > encoding errors. Therefore, a file with encoding errors is not a text file.
Corollary - there exist files which are text files in some locales, but binary files in others (based on whether the locale interprets the bytes as an encoding error or as valid characters). Yes, locale dependencies on standard behavior can be annoying. -- Eric Blake eblake redhat com +1-919-301-3266 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org
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