Bug 10368 - ISO 8859 mentioned as 7bit encoding in strings documentation

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ISO 8859 mentioned as 7bit encoding in strings documentation

Last modified: 2009-07-05 15:07:57

Bug#:	10368 alias:	Hardware:	Reporter:	Matthias Klose <doko@debian.org>
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Last confirmed: 0000-00-00 00:00

Opened: 2009-07-05 15:07

[forwarded from http://bugs.debian.org/452277]

is there a reason that it is mentioned here for `s'?

The strings manpage says describing the --encoding option:

"Possible  values for encoding are: s = single-7-bit-byte characters
(ASCII, ISO 8859, etc., default), S = single-8-bit-byte
characters,..."

However, ISO 8859 is NOT a 7 bit encoding, but rather an 8 bit encoding.

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