Hello,
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It looks like the xml rendering program used wxmaxima (under Windows at least) does not like null chars. The following makes it hang up:
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ascii(0);
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Not very inconvenient, but that means when working with binary data, one must not display it as is...
Anyway, it's not a bug from Maxima, the same works fine in xmaxima (does not print anything though).