Public bug reported:
Binary package hint: gedit
gedit does not allow to open binary files (even selecting iso8859-1
encoding fails, probably because of '0'/NULL characters).
An option to show it as read-only (possibly with 'hd/bsdmainutils'
transform) should be offered.
Reasoning: dropping down to terminal while working through a HD full of
old files is not nice. And refusing to show file contents just because
some of the bytes are a bit funky is not nice either.
ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: amd64
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.10
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/gedit
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: gedit 2.24.0-0ubuntu1
ProcEnviron:
PATH=/home/username/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: gedit
Uname: Linux 2.6.27-6-generic x86_64
** Affects: gedit (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Tags: apport-bug
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Can't open a binary file
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/282164
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