Jean-Claude ARBAUT <jeanclaudearbaut at orange.fr> writes:
> Hello,
>
> It looks like the xml rendering program used wxmaxima (under Windows
> at least) does not like null chars. The following makes it hang up:
>
> ascii(0);
>
> 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).
For what it's worth, this looks like it's at least partially
Windows-specific: trying the same under Linux gives no output (but the
program doesn't hang). Then editing the command to "ascii(100)" and
re-evaluating gives me an XML parsing error ('mismatched tag' at line
1). Evaluating yet again gives "d" and everything seems back to normal.
This was with wxMaxima 12.04.0 and Maxima 5.28.0 on Debian.
Rupert
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