>Number:         19487
>Category:       bin
>Synopsis:       file is ignoring UTF-16 endianness
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    bin-bug-people
>State:          open
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   net
>Arrival-Date:   Sat Dec 21 14:25:00 PST 2002
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Ignatios Souvatzis
>Release:        NetBSD 1.6_STABLE
>Organization:
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>Environment:
	
	
System: NetBSD marie 1.6_STABLE NetBSD 1.6_STABLE (MARIE) #4: Sun Dec 1 21:56:37 CET 2002 is@marie:/var/tmp/MARIE shark
Architecture: arm
Machine: shark
>Description:

file ~/ncoas* creates this output:

/usr/home/is/ncoas.txt:  Little-endian UTF-16 Unicode character data, with very long lines, with CRLF line terminators

/usr/home/is/ncoasb.txt: Big-endian UTF-16 Unicode character data, with very long lines, with CRLF line terminators

where ncoasb.txt was created by this command line

dd conv=swab < ncoas.txt > ncoasb.txt

>How-To-Repeat:
	Create a UTF-16 text file, say ncoas.txt
	dd conv=swab < ncoas.txt > ncoasb.txt
	file ncoas*.txt
>Fix:

Index: ascmagic.c
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvsroot/src/usr.bin/file/ascmagic.c,v
retrieving revision 1.17
diff -u -r1.17 ascmagic.c
--- ascmagic.c	2001/09/09 10:46:36	1.17
+++ ascmagic.c	2002/12/21 22:10:47
@@ -600,7 +600,7 @@
 			return 0;
 	}
 
-	return 1;
+	return (1+bigend);
 }
 
 #undef F


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