Bug#796170: Status?

[Felix Lechner <felix.lechner@lease-up.com>]

Hi Adam,

> Here's an experimental tag, a step towards elimination of mojibake
> system-wide.  It checks all text files in *bin/, /usr/share/doc/ and
> those that look like a script file.  "Text" is defined as not having any
> bytes in the 0..31 range other than tabs, newlines (incl. Windows ones)
> or form feeds.  In practice, this definition appears to work pretty
> well, although the list of files that should be skipped despite being
> text needs work.

The bug has attachments with proposed patches. Is this tag still in
the works? If so, would you please turn it into a merge request on
Salsa?

> I'll try to learn how to write lintian test cases.

I would be happy to assist with writing tests.

Kind regards
Felix Lechner