[Github-comments] [geany/geany] Feature Request: opening binary files (#1508)

[elextr]

This has been rejected before.  Geany and its libraries are C and use null terminated strings.  Therefore file contents cannot contain zero bytes, so any file that contains zero bytes is rejected.

To accept zero bytes would require a considerable re-write of Geany.

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