There's some null characters (look like ^@ in vim) in this file causing your problem, run `file -I ` and you'll see it's charset is binary. I found some null chars on line 155 (grep for non-ascii characters to find them). You can remove them with sed or tr and be on your happy way. Paul Mooring Operations Engineer www.opscode.com ________________________________ From: plug-discuss-bounces@lists.phxlinux.org on behalf of Michael Havens Sent: Thursday, July 25, 2013 2:09 PM To: plug-discuss@phxlinux.org Subject: I got a zip file from the government but it won't unzip properly It seems to unzip fine but the document that opens freezes libre writer and when I try to open it with a text editor it complains about encoding. here is the file: https://www.dropbox.com/s/q5x24uzhyrv3mo1/az-foiarefund-list.zip Any ideas how to open it? :-)~MIKE~(-: