Maybe triggered by the encoding then?
openSUSE-EULAs> find . -name "*en" -exec file "{}" \;
./gstreamer-fluendo-mp3/gstreamer-fluendo-mp3.en: UTF-8 Unicode text
./Mesa-dri-nouveau/Mesa-dri-nouveau.en: ASCII text
./gstreamer-0_10-fluendo-mp3/gstreamer-0_10-fluendo-mp3.en: UTF-8 Unicode text
./AdobeICCProfiles/AdobeICCProfiles.en: ASCII text