Bug 108128 - Octal numbers in magic match elements of type string in mime database source xml
Summary: Octal numbers in magic match elements of type string in mime database source xml
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: Specifications
Classification: Unclassified
Component: General (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: Other All
: medium normal
Assignee: Allison Lortie (desrt)
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Reported: 2018-10-02 14:08 UTC by Roman
Modified: 2019-02-16 12:09 UTC (History)
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Description Roman 2018-10-02 14:08:01 UTC 
Some match values of type string in freedesktop.org.xml contain octal numbers written as leading '\' and following octal digits. E.g. "\177ELF". There's no mention of this format in Shared MIME-info Database spec and seems not to be a part of XML format.
Comment 1 David Faure 2018-10-03 02:52:09 UTC 
Fixed in git, but website not updated yet (I'll do it from the machine that has the setup, next week).
Comment 2 Roman 2018-10-03 07:40:27 UTC 
(In reply to David Faure from comment #1)
> Fixed in git, but website not updated yet

I see.
I also suggest that you add a note whether xml entity decoding must appear before or after decoding escaping characters to avoid ambiguity.

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