[Edbrowse-dev] Edbrowse recognizing site as binary data

[Karl Dahlke <eklhad@comcast.net>]

> edbrowse https://portal.slm.tu-dresden.de
> cannot browse a binary file
> I presume that's a bug? Is there anything I can do to help resolving this issue?

Not a bug technically, it's a feature not yet implemented.
Save the data to a file and run /bin/file on it and get this

HTML document, Little-endian UTF-16 Unicode text

The problem is utf-16, which edbrowse does not recognize.
This has been discussed on the group.
It is very rare on the internet and becoming rarer still,
so not sure if it is worth the bother to implement.
similar comments for utf-32.
Though these are more common on Windows, I'm told,
so maybe we should implement.
Anyways this is the first time a user has reported such a page to us.

Use the bd command to get around it, like this.
But any unicode chars above 256 will be garbled.

bd
e edbrowse https://portal.slm.tu-dresden.de
1s/^..//
,s/\0//g
b


Karl Dahlke