[Github-comments] [geany/geany] The nul character is interpreted as EOF on debian kde (#618)

[hinneLinks]

I usually just want to peak into binary files to look what readable strings are in there, I never write them.
In order to open them, I just trow away the NULL-Characters in a temporary file and open that one.

Maybe Geany could ask to open it - read only - without the NULL-Characters? Asking the user what to do would also solve #1966 imho.

Workaround (Ubuntu):
```
#!/bin/bash
# This script takes one parameter as input, replaces all NULL-Characters with "_"
# then saves that into a temporary file, open geany and delete that file directly
tempfile="$(mktemp)"
cat $1 | tr "\0" _ > $tempfile
geany $tempfile
rm $tempfile
```
Save it as `geany-null-safe.sh`and make it executable (`chmod +x geany-null-safe.sh`).
Use like this:
`./geany-null-safe.sh some-binary-file.pdf `


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