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gnome-vfs2 package

Wrong MIME type por ISO-8859 text

Bug #15246 reported by Alvaro del Castillo on 2005-04-11

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	GnomeVFS	Expired	Medium	gnome-bugs #300248
	gnome-vfs2 (Ubuntu)	Invalid	Medium	Ubuntu Desktop Bugs

Bug Description

The files of type "ISO-8859 text" are classified in the mime system as
application/octect-stream.
To reproduce the bug open a file with gedit and save it as ISO-8859-15. Then try to
open with nautilus the file or select the file with nautilus and using the right
mouse
button, select from the menu properties to see the mime type.

Checked in one fresh installation of Ubuntu Hoary and in a installation but with
a shared "/home".

http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=300248: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=300248

See original description

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Alvaro del Castillo (acs) wrote on 2005-04-11:

More useful info thanks to mr. perelló:

acs@amigo:~/devel/software/ensayos-aenor$ gnomevfs-info /tmp/kk

Name : kk
Type : Regular
MIME type : application/octet-stream

acs@amigo:~/devel/software/ensayos-aenor$ file /tmp/kk
/tmp/kk: ISO-8859 text

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Alvaro del Castillo (acs) wrote on 2005-04-11:

Testcase for the file and mime detection Edit (6 bytes, text/plain)

Created an attachment (id=2079)
Testcase for the file and mime detection

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Carlos Perelló Marín (carlos) wrote on 2005-04-11:

The problem seems to come from the 'ñ' character.

Getting an ISO-8859-15 version of a file with that character gives you this
error. (I got it with recode and gedit and both failed)

Also, if the file is renamed to have the .txt extension, it works.

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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote on 2005-04-11:

that's a gnomevfs issue, I've opened a bug upstream:
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=300248

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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote on 2005-09-11:

*** Bug 21393 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Daniel Holbach (dholbach) on 2006-04-07

Changed in gnome-vfs2:
assignee:	seb128 → desktop-bugs
status:	Unconfirmed → Confirmed

Bug Watch Updater (bug-watch-updater) on 2006-06-15

Changed in gnome-vfs:
status:	Unconfirmed → Confirmed

Pedro Villavicencio (pedro) on 2007-08-03

Changed in gnome-vfs2:
status:	Confirmed → Triaged

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Vadim Peretokin (vperetokin) wrote on 2008-11-07:

This isn't an issue anymore on a fresh install of 8.10. Both filetypes, with and without the fancy characters, are recognized as text/plain. I guess this is closable?

Vadim Peretokin (vperetokin) on 2008-11-15