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Bug 133207 - Gedit fails to open a file with a trailing NULL character
Gedit fails to open a file with a trailing NULL character
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 126555
Product: gedit
Classification: Applications
Component: general
2.4.x
Other Linux
: Normal normal
: ---
Assigned To: Gedit maintainers
gedit QA volunteers
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2004-02-02 12:34 UTC by DmD (Spider) Ljungmark
Modified: 2004-12-22 21:47 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: 2.3/2.4

Attachments
The file that gedit balks on (17.85 KB, text/html)
2004-02-02 12:35 UTC, DmD (Spider) Ljungmark 		Details

Description DmD (Spider) Ljungmark 2004-02-02 12:34:50 UTC 
Well, this page is the default opera homepage, as saved by Opera.

 file opera.yahoo.com.html
opera.yahoo.com.html: ASCII C++ program text, with very long lines



This is the errormessage from gedit :
Could not open the file
"/home/people/administra...der/opera.yahoo.com.html" because gedit has not
been able to automatically detect the character coding.

Please, check that you are not trying to open a binary file and try again
selecting a character coding in the 'Open File...' (or 'Open Location') dialog.

--

The file is a normal html one, except that it has a trailing NULL
character. (opera -> said url, and it gets that from the server per default)

Though I still feel that gedit should open the file.
Comment 1 DmD (Spider) Ljungmark 2004-02-02 12:35:29 UTC 
Created attachment 23979 [details]
The file that gedit balks on
Comment 2 Zaheer Abbas Merali 2004-02-05 15:50:45 UTC 
If that attachment is wget'ed, it causes the bug...however if opened
in epiphany and saved as...it opens up fine.  Potentially to do with
epiphany correcting a buggy html page's encoding and gedit maybe not
able to decipher it?

I am running gedit 2.5.3
Comment 3 DmD (Spider) Ljungmark 2004-02-09 12:38:59 UTC 
Yep , that behaviour is reproducible here as well.  Its still a bug in
gedit though. :)
Comment 4 Paolo Maggi 2004-07-13 13:05:23 UTC 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 126555 ***