243798 - Why does lxr think dom.properties is a binary file?

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Webtools Graveyard :: MXR, defect)

Description

[timeless]

1. load http://lxr.mozilla.org/seamonkey/source/dom/resources/locale/dom.properties
1' Binary File: dom.properties
1` something closer to
http://lxr.mozilla.org/seamonkey/source/dom/resources/locale/dom.properties?raw=1,
but with line numbers...

on my system:
R:\2004>type \mozilla\dom\resources\locale\CVS\Entries
/dom.properties/1.7/Wed Feb 18 21:39:08 2004//

there's no -kb tag...
what's so special?

Comment 1

[Dave Miller [:justdave]]

Reassigning to default owner/qa on endico's open bugs so I don't have to watch
her to get mail on them.

Comment 2

[Dave Miller [:justdave]]

Myk used to be the default assignee for this component.  Reassigning all remaining open bugs owned by him that he doesn't appear actively involved in to the default assignee/qa for later reassignment.

Comment 3

[Alex Polvi]

That file appears to be long gone. The closest I could find was:

http://lxr.mozilla.org/seamonkey/source/dom/locales/en-US/chrome/dom/dom.properties

and it seems OK... 

If you find another file that is binary and should not be, please open another bug.

Thanks for you report!

Comment 4

[timeless]

ok, the answer is that the file has just one very long line, and lxr concludes that it must therefore be a binary file.

Comment 5

[Chase Phillips]

No cycles to fix LXR bugs.

Comment 6

[Axel Hecht [:Pike]]

This happens for l10n very often, for example, 

http://lxr.mozilla.org/l10n/source/ne-NP/browser/chrome/branding/brand.dtd

My suspect is that too much utf-8 isn't good either, but I have no code to back that up.

This is even more annoying to localizers, as they are more likely to assume that they broke something than that lxr is just not too happy about non-ASCII.

My hope would be that if we made lxr check for utf-8 instead of ascii, this wouldn't be too hard to fix, but I have no idea how to find the right spot in the lxr sources to back that up.

Comment 7

[Sylvestre Ledru [:Sylvestre]]

mxr is gone, mass closing.
https://searchfox.org/ is a much better alternative.