On Sep 6, 2011, at 1:18 AM, Konstantin Khomoutov wrote:

> The problem is while PDF is considered to be a binary file (and it
> indeed usually contains compressed regions, it does contain ASCII header
> and footer (I think it's its PostScript heritage), so it can be
> considered to be a plain ASCII file by any tool which does not look for
> its special magic character sequence (in the first line of the header).
> Probably Fossil does not do that.

That's a bit funny, because the pdf files contain a single \r\n ending not 
within a compressed region. Converting that to \n doesn't seem to break 
anything, but did I just kill a kitten?

And the more important question: should we make fossil to treat all pdf files 
to be binary?


Kind regards,
Remigiusz Modrzejewski



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