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Blob­Io­Shinn

cowan
2011-06-29 13:08:37
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To work with mixed binary/textual I/O, the following R6RS-compatible procedures are proposed:

It's an error to pass invalid bytes to utf8->string. A plausible recovery strategy is to convert each invalid byte into a U+FFFD character.

Write-partial-blob would be merged into write-blob if the same is done for blob copying.