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dpkg package

  1. Bug #1053749
  2. Comment #42

Comment 42 for bug 1053749

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Peter De Maeyer (peter-de-maeyer) wrote :

Using some of the above suggestions, I am still unable to identify the problematic character.

grep-status -r . | iconv -f utf-8 -t ucs-2le 1> /dev/null; echo $?
iconv: illegal input sequence at position 1907586
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Sooo... What file do I need to investigate?

I don't have /var/lib/dpkg/source, and /var/lib/dpkg/available doesn't have a line number 1907586.
Possibly 1907586 is a character number rather than a line number, but I don't know how to seek to character number.