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sudo xattr -d works however
Authored by: baltwo on Sun, Mar 9 2008 at 1:19PM PDT

I get:

$ xattr -l default_smart.plist
com.apple.TextEncoding: UTF-8;134217984

Additionally,

$ ls -el@ default_smart.plist
-rw-r--r--@ 1 me me 1456 Feb 29 19:46 default_smart.plist
com.apple.TextEncoding 15

I get nothing dealing with com.apple.FinderInfo or MACINTOSH;0

sudo xattr -d works however
Authored by: hamarkus on Sun, Mar 9 2008 at 1:44PM PDT

Just blame SubEthaEdit, it added the file icon and generally does funny stuff with file encodings.