Mauro Tortonesi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> the problem is not with HTTP response messages, but with HTTP
> resources (which can be for example binary data or multibyte char
> text - in this case you really want to escape unprintable data while
> printing all the valid multibyte chars you can using current locale
> if the user has for instance specified -O -) and eventually with FTP
> response messages.

It is incorrect to just assume that the data we receive is textual.
It will cause corruption with something as simple as `wget -O - URL >
foo.gif'.

I still think that moving in this direction is a seriously bad move.

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