On Thu, May 02, 2013 at 08:45:28PM +0200, dexen deVries wrote:
> please pardon the silly question, but... how about piping the binary data 
> through xd(1) before sending it to regexp(3)?
> 

Because it will work only for some cases, since newlines and formatting
come in the picture and it still imposes to have regexp rune compatible,
i.e. not every sequence is allowed it has to be an UTF-8 compatible one.

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