[darcs-users] Re: petition for '\0' to be removed from binary auto-detection code

[Mark Stosberg]

On Tue, Nov 16, 2004 at 05:33:49PM +0100, Norbert Nemec wrote:
> On Tuesday 16 November 2004 16:46, Mark Stosberg wrote:
> > Suggestions included:
> >     - checking for ASCII values > 127
> 
> Sorry I have to object here: plain ASCII code may be enough for plain English 
> text and sourcecode, but most international users would see it as a grave 
> restriction.

I'm not advocating this either, just documenting what I found. Even
as a English-based programmer , sometimes I have to develop code that manages
control characters that may fail this test. 

    Mark

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