Ze'ev:
Because in most cases programmers are less than lets say bright. If
you bring up ASCII you will only confuse them. I suspect they will
try and use it in some sort of horrendous fashion, like convert to
ASCII and then back. To give you an idea how stupid programmers can
be a S0C7 turns into a tech support issue as the system said it was a
0C7 so it is a systems issue. Thats how bad some programmers are.
Ed
On Apr 12, 2015, at 1:25 AM, Ze'ev Atlas wrote:
to summarize the conversation:
I don't know what is scarer letting ASCII loose in the
environment or letting programmers know about it.
Not to alarm you further, but I believe it's already endemic.
Not in any company I have ever worked.
Why is getting an ASCII piece of information so scary? And why
would handling it using proper programming, any scary?
So how would the companies you work for prevent the need? What
would you do if you cannot allow FTP to do the conversion when
there is a mix of alphanumeric characters and binary information?
ZA
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