On Sun, Jul 23, 2006 at 12:32:53PM +0200, Rob Janssen wrote: || That would be a nonstandard representation of binary characters. || Normally, 032 means "octal 32" and the character would be ^Z (ctrl-Z). || In this notation, a space is \040. A space is 32 in decimal.
This is in fact standard; from STD13 (RFC1035, DNS), on escaping characters:
\DDD where each D is a digit is the octet corresponding to
the decimal number described by DDD. The resulting
octet is assumed to be text and is not checked for
special meaning.
Ciao. Vincent.
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