You're right that would be a cleaner solution. The truth is, the offending line in my script was commented out. So in this case I didn't even need a better solution.
My question still stands though, should a single 'binary' character cause fossil to consider a file binary, and thus make it unviewable through the ui. Bill On Fri, May 20, 2011 at 01:49:59PM +0400, teh...@ya.ru wrote: > > I had a seemingly normal python file checked in and when I went to view > > the > > artifact, fossil claimed it was binary. I tracked it down to a line like > > this > > in my source: > > > > sys.stdout.write('^H') > > > > Where the ^H is 0x8, the backspace character. It seems my otherwise text > > looking file was marked binary by mimetype_from_content() in src/doc.c > > Any reason of having (binary) 0x08 character when there is \b? > _______________________________________________ > fossil-users mailing list > fossil-users@lists.fossil-scm.org > http://lists.fossil-scm.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fossil-users _______________________________________________ fossil-users mailing list fossil-users@lists.fossil-scm.org http://lists.fossil-scm.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fossil-users