At 2014-09-30 07:09:38 +0200, roji(at)roji(dot)org wrote:
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> the unknown type would be transferred as text and we'd provide that
> text to the user as an unprocessed string. Going full binary seems to
> eliminate this possibility.
If you're willing to hand the user an unprocessed string, why can't that
be the binary encoding just as well as text?
-- Abhijit