From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: August Karlstrom Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Display corruption with binary files Date: Sat, 25 Nov 2006 13:16:37 GMT Organization: Telia Internet Message-ID: References: <1164368979.309609.307320@45g2000cws.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1164462051 31584 80.91.229.2 (25 Nov 2006 13:40:51 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 25 Nov 2006 13:40:51 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Nov 25 14:40:49 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Gnxlu-0004IJ-1c for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 25 Nov 2006 14:40:46 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Gnxlt-0005fk-Gd for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 25 Nov 2006 08:40:45 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!news3.google.com!news2.volia.net!news.germany.com!news.osn.de!diablo2.news.osn.de!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!newspeer1.se.telia.net!se.telia.net!masternews.telia.net.!newsb.telia.net.POSTED!not-for-mail User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.8 (X11/20061115) Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help In-Reply-To: Original-Lines: 17 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 83.250.249.22 Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@telia.com Original-X-Trace: newsb.telia.net 1164460597 83.250.249.22 (Sat, 25 Nov 2006 14:16:37 CET) Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 25 Nov 2006 14:16:37 CET Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:143359 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:38975 Archived-At: 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