[jifty-devel] question about binary encoding

[Jesse Vincent]

On Fri, Mar 17, 2006 at 10:20:28AM +1100, Bart Bunting wrote:
> Thanks!
> 
> That helps a bit :).
> 
> It has reduced the output size of the file but I'm still thinking that there
> must be something happening on the upload side as the output file is almost
> twice as big still.

How big is it in the database?


> Is it safe to simply shove binary data into the database (sqlite) in this
> case?

It _should_ be. But we're not doing it in our application and I have a
scary feeling we might be doing a UTF8 transform.

> Sorry for all the silly questions :).

They're not at all silly. And I'm sorry for the software that's not yet
magic enough.  ;)

> Bart
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: jifty-devel-bounces at lists.jifty.org
> > [mailto:jifty-devel-bounces at lists.jifty.org]On Behalf Of Alex Vandiver
> > Sent: Friday, March 17, 2006 10:05 AM
> > To: Nifty apps in a Jiffy
> > Subject: Re: [jifty-devel] question about binary encoding
> >
> >
> > On Fri, 2006-03-17 at 09:35 +1100, Bart Bunting wrote:
> > > <% $record->image %> to display it.
> > >
> > > I'm guessing that this is being escaped as it goes through mason or
> > > something?
> >
> > Mason html-escapes all stuff output through <% %> blocks by default.
> > You can keep it from doing this by writing it as:
> > <% $record->image |n %>
> >
> > See http://www.masonhq.com/docs/manual/Devel.html#escaping_expressions
> > for more on Mason's escaping.
> >  - Alex
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