Hi Mark, Mark H Weaver <[email protected]> skribis:
> Ludovic Courtès <[email protected]> writes: >> What could have been nice is if there’s a way to mark specific strings >> as being ASCII, or if there’s a “byte vector” data type compatible with >> strings, for instance. > > Do we know that all strings containing store references will be > representable in ASCII? The basename part of /gnu/store/* is guaranteed to be pure ASCII. Now, you’re right that file names that come after could be non-ASCII, though that’s very unlikely. We’d have to look at concrete examples I guess. Ludo’.
