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Illusory?Illusory?Posted Mar 13, 2009 13:14 UTC (Fri) by man_ls (subscriber, #15091)In reply to: Linux, meet the Registry by eru Parent article: ext4 and data loss The binary/text distinction is not illusory; it is a cognitive issue. Limiting file contents to printable characters (not just byte values since you can use multi-byte characters) makes people be able to edit them. Text files do not usually contain just random characters; they contain readable words that can be understood and documented rather easily. The machine doesn't care, true, but to people there is a big difference between a sequence of random byte values and a sequence of written words. Just as, to me personally, there is a big difference between a text in Spanish and a set of cyrillic Russian words.
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