Yeah, in general editors or other tools will put in place-holders for non printable characters. The ^M's are carriage returns (left by Windows) and can be safely ignored, what I saw was a null character good text editors shouldn't choke up on either of those
but the null characters would explain the encoding strangeness. You can look for non-printable characters using greps character range:
grep -aP '[\x7f-\xff]' AZ021306-FOIArefund-list.txt
If you're interested in fixing this to be recognized as a text file, you can combined that with `nl`:
nl AZ021306-FOIArefund-list.txt | grep -aP '[\x7f-\xff]'
which should get you a line number. From there use a "programmer's text editor" (vim, emacs, sublime text, ect.) to removing the offending character.
Hope that helps.
Paul Mooring
Operations Engineer
www.opscode.com
From: plug-discuss-bounces@lists.phxlinux.org <plug-discuss-bounces@lists.phxlinux.org> on behalf of Michael Havens <bmike1@gmail.com>
Sent: Thursday, July 25, 2013 3:02 PM
To: Main PLUG discussion list
Subject: Re: I got a zip file from the government but it won't unzip properly
cool..... vi opens it. I do not see any '^@' characters but I see a lot of '^M' characters. I see a few '@' characters. So I do not need to worry about those characters.... only the non ascii ones?
:-)~MIKE~(-:
On Thu, Jul 25, 2013 at 2:42 PM, Paul Mooring
<paul@opscode.com> wrote:
There's some null characters (look like ^@ in vim) in this file causing your problem, run `file -I <file_name>` and you'll see it's charset is binary. I found some null chars on line 155 (grep for non-ascii characters to find them). You can remove them with
sed or tr and be on your happy way.
Paul Mooring
Operations Engineer
It seems to unzip fine but the document that opens freezes libre writer and when I try to open it with a text editor it complains about encoding. here is the file:
Any ideas how to open it?
:-)~MIKE~(-:
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