From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic =?iso-8859-1?Q?Court=E8s?=) Newsgroups: gmane.lisp.guile.user Subject: Re: Uploading Word documents, PDFs, PNG files etc Date: Mon, 11 May 2009 17:11:40 +0200 Message-ID: <87bppzbro3.fsf@gnu.org> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1242054743 14374 80.91.229.12 (11 May 2009 15:12:23 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 11 May 2009 15:12:23 +0000 (UTC) To: guile-user@gnu.org Original-X-From: guile-user-bounces+guile-user=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon May 11 17:12:13 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: guile-user@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1M3XAn-000172-Nz for guile-user@m.gmane.org; Mon, 11 May 2009 17:12:10 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:44158 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1M3XAm-0001iC-WC for guile-user@m.gmane.org; Mon, 11 May 2009 11:12:09 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1M3XAi-0001hG-Fa for guile-user@gnu.org; Mon, 11 May 2009 11:12:04 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1M3XAd-0001f3-JU for guile-user@gnu.org; Mon, 11 May 2009 11:12:03 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=40591 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1M3XAd-0001er-7W for guile-user@gnu.org; Mon, 11 May 2009 11:11:59 -0400 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2]:43457 helo=ciao.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1M3XAc-0003gp-Ma for guile-user@gnu.org; Mon, 11 May 2009 11:11:59 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1M3XAZ-0002U1-09 for guile-user@gnu.org; Mon, 11 May 2009 15:11:55 +0000 Original-Received: from 194.199.1.33 ([194.199.1.33]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 11 May 2009 15:11:54 +0000 Original-Received: from ludo by 194.199.1.33 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 11 May 2009 15:11:54 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 15 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 194.199.1.33 X-URL: http://www.fdn.fr/~lcourtes/ X-Revolutionary-Date: 22 =?iso-8859-1?Q?Flor=E9al?= an 217 de la =?iso-8859-1?Q?R=E9volution?= X-PGP-Key-ID: 0xEA52ECF4 X-PGP-Key: http://www.fdn.fr/~lcourtes/ludovic.asc X-PGP-Fingerprint: 821D 815D 902A 7EAB 5CEE D120 7FBA 3D4F EB1F 5364 X-OS: i686-pc-linux-gnu User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.90 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:YC+Dgp1+59/iQpxjKrQWfJm9G/c= X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) X-BeenThere: guile-user@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: General Guile related discussions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: guile-user-bounces+guile-user=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: guile-user-bounces+guile-user=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.lisp.guile.user:7283 Archived-At: Hello, Sebastian Tennant writes: > string contains #\nul character: "\x0d The problem is that Guile strings cannot contain null characters. For arbitrary binary data, other containers must be used, such as SRFI-4 u8vectors or R6RS bytevectors (from Guile-R6RS-Libs). It may be a design flaw in Guile-WWW, which abuses strings to store binary data. Thanks, Ludo'.