Re: [Chicken-hackers] blob-literal read syntax

[Magnus Achim Deininger]

Hmm, I must've had some other syntax in mind there, yenc only has verbatim
encoding for most stuff in the regular text range it seems, or at least
that's how it appears when looking at the provided sample zips.

But yeah, to enter whitespace manually, hex all the way. Definitely not
R6RSs decimal-based syntax.

EDIT: Nevermind that comment about the regular text range, it's always  
shuffled around. I really had a totally different encoding in mind there.

On Fri, 22 Oct 2010 17:14:57 +0200, John Cowan <address@hidden>
wrote:

> Magnus Achim Deininger scripsit:
>
> > =ybegin<text>=yend
> >
> > <text> is mostly the blob contents verbatim, i.e. without converting it
> > to hex first, except for some special characters.
>
> According to http://www.yenc.org/yenc-draft.1.3.txt , the format is
> much more complex than that (involving multiple lines and keywords on
> the header and trailer lines) and the contents are *not* verbatim: for
> example, #x00 is encoded as '*' and #x32 (digit '2') is encoded as 'T'.
> Furthermore, there is a hidden dependency on the character encoding of
> a file in which yEnc objects are embedded: the encoded form of #x7E is
> whatever character has a codepoint at #xA8 in that encoding, which is
> not necessarily U+00A8.
>
> If we must have blob syntax at all, I agree that hex is The Right Thing,
> but allowing interspersed whitespace.