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Database workbench for Mac and Windows
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Decide how to handle binary data #81

Open kjk opened 8 years ago

kjk commented 8 years ago

In one of my databases I have sha1 as bytes. It doesn't look good when shown:

We need to decide how to handle binary data (not show at all? show in hex? show a placeholder text and show in binary when clicked?)

thellimist commented 8 years ago

Placerholder seems the best choice in my opinion. The user will never use that data just by looking or copying it.

On Wed, Dec 16, 2015, 15:10 Krzysztof Kowalczyk notifications@github.com wrote:

In one of my databases I have sha1 as bytes. It doesn't look good when shown:

https://camo.githubusercontent.com/4f5682ba993a5f18ebddfb468a1e51de1ee84c74/68747470733a2f2f7777772e657665726e6f74652e636f6d2f73686172642f73312f73682f32633134383137332d643032392d346637662d616138342d3364646237376164323238372f356365303431633261663836663362662f7265732f61376435336462652d663736362d343462322d616563342d6330383365363237356630662f736b697463682e706e67

We need to decide how to handle binary data (not show at all? show in hex? show a placeholder text and show in binary when clicked?)

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