See http://drupalcode.org/project/mostpopular.git/blob/refs/heads/7.x-1.x:/m... which shows garble on lines 2 + 8

Furthermore it contains \r

It breaks my command line tools :(

find . -name "*.info" -exec cat {} \; | sort -u
sort: string comparison failed: Illegal byte sequence
sort: Set LC_ALL='C' to work around the problem.
sort: The strings compared were `; You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.' and `; You can contact New Signature by electronic mail at labs@newsignature.com \226or- by U.S. Postal Service at 1100 H St. NW, Suite 940, Washington, DC 20005.'.

This is similar to #1890932: Please fix unicode problem in info file