Thanks, everyone, for comments. The issue has been circumvented in this case by programmatically generating the contents of the data file in question:
http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/core-libs-dev/2014-April/026668.html Brian On Apr 29, 2014, at 5:35 AM, Alan Bateman <alan.bate...@oracle.com> wrote: > On 29/04/2014 11:31, Wang Weijun wrote: >> : >> >> If I understand correctly, the reason why binary data is not preferable is >> not because they are not printable, but not human readable. Encoding them to >> BASE64 or HEX does not really solve the problem. What you need to do is >> precisely describing how to create the file so that a reader is able to >> recreate it. >> > The other thing that came up previously is distributions that have a policy > of not allowing binary files. If I'm not mistake then they are deleted by > downstream patches, which in this case would lead to a test failure. > > -Alan.
