Red Hat Satellite 5.6 configuration file upload is marked binary for text files

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Environment

  • Red Hat Satellite 5.6

Issue

  • Red Hat Satellite 5.6 configuration file upload is marked binary for text files that include UTF-8 characters

Resolution

  • This issue is currently being reviewed by Engineering and has a internal bugzillla assigned. Contact your Red Hat support representative for more information.

Root Cause

  • Satellite application logic marks configuration files that have any character with an ordinal value of 128 or greater as binary.

Diagnostic Steps

  • Find any characters that are greater then 127 ordinal
grep --color='auto' -P -n "[\x80-\xFF]" filename

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