It appears that Mark Andrews <[email protected]> said: >\DDD where each D is a digit is the octet corresponding to >the decimal number described by DDD. The resulting >octet is assumed to be text and is not checked for >special meaning.
So far, so good. >>> Every authoritative DNS server does that when it reads a master file. >>> The binary stuff is represented with decimal escapes, but so what, >>> it's mechanically generated and mechanically consumed. >> No, zone files can be often maintained by people in form of text files. I do >> not reason why TXT records should be >present in escaped form. These letters are not _binary_, they are letters >encoded in higher value bytes only. While I can believe that is true for the zone files you manually edit, I can assure you that I have created and processed zone files where that is not true at all. [[ skip ahead to someone else ]] >> I am not trying to change master file format. I want it consumable in its >> raw 8bit utf-8 form. Sorry, but no. The master file format is well defined, and it is not raw 8bit utf-8. R's, John _______________________________________________ DNSOP mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected]
