Re: [exim-dev] magic characters in spec.txt?

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Author: Heiko Schlittermann
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To: exim-dev
Subject: Re: [exim-dev] magic characters in spec.txt?
Phil Pennock <exim-dev@???> (Fri Feb 11 21:46:10 2011):
> On 2011-02-11 at 21:25 +0100, Heiko Schlittermann wrote:
> > while going through the spec.txt (of 4.74) I see lines as the following:
> >
> >     26.6Â Using tags to record message sizes
> >         ^
> >         `-- some magic character

> >
> > Piped through xxd it is about this:
> >
> >     0000000: 3236 2e36 c382 2055 7369 6e67 2074 6167  26.6.. Using tag
> >                        ^^^^

> >
> > I'm not sure if it needs to be there, but at least it makes it harder to
> > search for /^26\.6\./ (as it should be from the table of contents) or
> > for /^26\.6 / as it looks like...
> >
> > Bug or feature?
>
> Bug, already fixed, with a safety net put in place to keep it from
> happening again.
>
> http://bugs.exim.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1079
> http://git.exim.org/exim.git/commit/b32a971138c1120763af565a142787cf3175ced7


Thank you. And sorry for telling you the wrong character sequence.
(Used the mouse cut in my editor and mouse-pasted it into xxd…, after
leaving the editor, converting it to UTF8.)

--
Heiko