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From: August Karlstrom <fusionfive@comhem.se>
Subject: Re: Display corruption with binary files
Date: Sat, 25 Nov 2006 13:16:37 GMT	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <VmX9h.24287$E02.9847@newsb.telia.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <mailman.1089.1164458537.2155.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>

Peter Dyballa skrev:
> 
> 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 ...

OK, thanks for the info.


August

  parent reply	other threads:[~2006-11-25 13:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-11-23 22:05 Display corruption with binary files August Karlstrom
2006-11-24 11:49 ` Robert Thorpe
2006-11-25 10:30   ` August Karlstrom
2006-11-25 11:04     ` Eli Zaretskii
2006-11-25 16:38       ` Perry Smith
2006-11-25 21:02         ` Eli Zaretskii
2006-11-26  0:34           ` Perry Smith
2006-11-26  4:09             ` Eli Zaretskii
2006-11-26  4:55               ` Perry Smith
2006-11-26  9:19                 ` Arjen Wiersma
2006-11-26 20:23                 ` Eli Zaretskii
     [not found]       ` <mailman.1101.1164472694.2155.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2006-11-26 13:30         ` Robert Thorpe
2006-11-25 12:42     ` Peter Dyballa
     [not found]     ` <mailman.1089.1164458537.2155.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2006-11-25 13:16       ` August Karlstrom [this message]
     [not found]     ` <mailman.1086.1164452697.2155.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2006-11-27 20:50       ` Stefan Monnier
2006-11-24 18:37 ` Eli Zaretskii
     [not found] ` <mailman.1054.1164416983.2155.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2006-11-25 10:30   ` August Karlstrom
2006-11-25 10:42     ` August Karlstrom
2006-11-25 13:15       ` Eli Zaretskii

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