Re: wily 0.13.42

["Ian Broster" <>]

> I'm not sure this is a bug we want to fix?  I'm guessing that this
> is because (not surprisingly) some bits of /bin/echo aren't valid
> UTF8.
I see.

However it does seem to break a rather fundamental assumption that a load  
then save will not corrupt the file.
Most text editors seem ok with binry files (presumably because the don't  
do UTF at all); despite the technical difficulties of doing so in wily, I  
think it's worth another think.
> we'd have to maintain two copies of the file:
> the version with valid UTF, and the original version with invalid
> UTF.
Is there no way to have a raw representation in memory and a best-effort  
UTF8 render/manipulation?
i.


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Ian Broster