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.
