Re: Display corruption with binary files

[Peter Dyballa]

Am 25.11.2006 um 10:30 schrieb August Karlstrom:

> OK, but isn't a binary file as well as a text file really just a  
> sequence of arbitrary bytes?

A text file, binary or multinary, does not contain control  
characters. Control characters are for example ASCII NUL ...  
INFORMATION SEPARATOR ONE (U+0000...U+001F) and DELETE ...  
APPLICATION PROGRAM COMMAND (U+007F...U+009F), plus some more, that  
for example determine whether a text goes right-to-left or left-to- 
right, or up-down or ...

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  Pete

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