MXdiags - file encoding

[sfws]

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[freddie]

I've just checked on my system:

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root@weather:/opt/CumulusMX/MXdiags# file 20220323-054000.txt
20220323-054000.txt: HTML document, UTF-8 Unicode text, with very long lines

So it looks like UTF-8.

Have you tried using a terminal window, and a command such as 'cat' or 'more'?

[mcrossley]

It's a system provided logging service, but the encoding used (default) is UTF-8.

[sfws]

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[freddie]

@freddie, yes I could use terminal, but you don't explain why the GUI software can't open the files

You didn't ask for an explanation - you asked for the encoding which I supplied. I suggested the terminal as an alternative.

[mcrossley]

@mcrossley, utf-8 only uses one byte, so a Byte Order Mark is irrelevant, but could it or some other Microsoft feature, being added cause the problem?

I have had a look at the files being generated on Windows and my Raspberry Pi's with a hex editor, none of them are generating log files with a BOM or any sort of header - they are straight-up plain text files.

[Phil23]

Sounds like something weird going on within your OS.

Every editor I've opened on my Pi's has been fine with all files.
Geany is my main go to editor on the Pi, only using Nano for the likes of Crontabs.

Sudo Geany [Filename] works for root edits.

If you have a spare card or another Pi, you could test the files opening there.

Also as mentioned, I do also open files in NotePad++ vis a WinSCP connection & don't see anything but raw txt.