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VDF files have unpredictable encodings

steamopen
ValveSoftware/steam-for-linux#5075 · opened 2017-07-11 by rhetr · updated 2019-07-18 · 0 comments · github
Rrhetr 2017-07-11 github

Your system information

  • Steam client version (build number or date): Jun 8 2017
  • Distribution (e.g. Ubuntu): Ubuntu 16.04.2
  • Opted into Steam client beta?: No
  • Have you checked for system updates?: Yes

Please describe your issue in as much detail as possible:

running find ~/.local/share/Steam -type f -name "*.vdf" -exec file {} + returns the filetype and encoding of all the vdf files in Steam's directory. For some reason they are not standardized and are instead a mix of ASCII, UTF-8 and unencoded data. Why is this the case? They should all have the same encoding, probably UTF-8.

Steps for reproducing this issue:

  1. run find ~/.local/share/Steam -type f -name "*.vdf" -exec file {} +
  2. observe result

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