[jifty-devel] question about binary encoding

[Jesse Vincent]

On Fri, Mar 17, 2006 at 12:20:44PM +1100, Bart Bunting wrote:
> Ooops,
> 
> Sorry, I'm using a screenreader and didn't listen to that line in it's
> entirety, should pay more attention.

No worries. (Which screen reader, incidentally?)
> 
> Anyway the odd thing is that it returns 9 for the length.  Which seems
> strange given that the output is 1100k or so.  and the input is about 650k.
> The 9 appears to be correct in that when i do the select 9 chars are
> printed, some of them are obviously binary things the screen reader
> describes the first for example as "a tilda inverted questionmark" whatever
> that is :).

If your data isn't proprietary, would you be willing to put it up
somewhere I could download and poke at it?

Jesse