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[DavidHB]

(09-01-2015 21:52)simoncn Wrote:  My proposed solution is to add code to replace all illegal characters (not just 0x01) in all tag values (not just COMMENT) with a legal substitute such as the Unicode replacement character � (U+FFFD). The replacement would be internal to MinimServer and the file tags would not be modified.

When the user is viewing the tag value in a control point, the replacement character will be visible and this will show the user that the tag value contains an illegal character as well as identifying the exact position of the illegal character.

I warmly welcome this proposal. When I was reading this thread, my immediate thought was that the problem was by no means confined to the Comment tag. I copy and paste into a number of tags, and it is always possible to pick up illegal characters by accident. The combination of workaround and diagnostic in MinimServer would make this problem very manageable.

David