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
www.opscode.com
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plug-discuss-bounces@lists.phxlinux.org> on behalf of Michael Havens <
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Sent: Thursday, July 25, 2013 2:09 PM
To:
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Subject: I got a zip file from the government but it won't unzip properly
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:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/q5x24uzhyrv3mo1/az-foiarefund-list.zip
Any ideas how to open it?
:-)~MIKE~(-:
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