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Improve encoding robustness #11

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Lykos153 opened this issue Jan 12, 2019 · 0 comments

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Lykos153 commented Jan 12, 2019

AnnexRemote is currently relying on the standard encoding, which is ASCII for Python2 and (probably) UTF-8 for Pyhon3.

A robust external special remote shouldn't assume any particular character encoding, either.

Lines will be terminated with '\n' (0xA), and words in lines are delimited by an ascii space (0x20). The keywords in the protocol are ascii too of course. Any values can contain an arbitrary sequence of bytes that may or may not be able to be decoded using the current character encoding.

http://git-annex.branchable.com/design/external_special_remote_protocol/#comment-e3242305ec1a8ec81995f25e4454b455

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