It might be better (more portable) to escape those as octal or hex sequences (like '\002' or '\x02'). On Jun 24, 2012 3:11 PM, "James Bremner" <[email protected]> wrote:
> Richard Hipp <drh@...> writes: > > > In your case there is a Ctrl-B (ascii 0x02) in the 2150th byte of the > file, > > which makes Fossil think it is a binary file. > > Thank you for clarifying this mystery. > > FYI: ascii 0x02 is STX = Start of Text It is used by many devices that > communicate over RS232 to demark the beginning if a message. This code is > used to parse messages from such devices and so the character is sprinkled > all > through it. > > Other such codes freuently used are: > > 1 001 01 00000001 SOH Start of Heading > 2 002 02 00000010 STX Start of Text > 3 003 03 00000011 ETX End of Text > 4 004 04 00000100 EOT End of Transmission > > James > > > _______________________________________________ > fossil-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.fossil-scm.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fossil-users >
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