<p>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.</p>
<p>To accept zero bytes would require a considerable re-write of Geany.</p>

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