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> You could just check the first X bytes. Also, I'm guessing curl doesn't print out to the terminal if the data is more than 2000 bytes anyway?

Of course it does. You can curl the concatenated content of the library of congress to your terminal if you want to.

> the binary will be printed on the screen, that's a problem

No. Because printing the binary to screen is the current behaviour in all cases, the goal of this change is to reduce the incidence of it for quality of life.

> How is it that the zero byte is part of UTF-8 then?

Flash News: unprintable characters are part of unicode. NUL is one of them.




Thanks for your non-answers :)




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