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<p><a class="user-mention" data-hovercard-type="user" data-hovercard-url="/users/elextr/hovercard" data-octo-click="hovercard-link-click" data-octo-dimensions="link_type:self" href="https://github.com/elextr">@elextr</a> not sure how it handles non-ASCII, but it might be plain bytes, so the output encoding is whatever the input is was -- and doesn't handle non-ASCII-compatible support anyway.<br>
And yes, it's the "old" vi format, but augmented with a lot of extra fields in a compatible manner.</p>
<p>Your concerns about non-ASCII is a good one, but AFAICT we'd have the same problem, or even worse with the proprietary one, I don't think we do much conversion when generating tag files.  OTOH, we should be happy with UTF-8 ones as we mostly (?) use that internally.  I'm actually not sure how we deal with non-"real time" parsing, I'm afraid we still feed in the file itself, which means no encoding conversion.</p>
<p>So I'm all for <a class="user-mention" data-hovercard-type="user" data-hovercard-url="/users/techee/hovercard" data-octo-click="hovercard-link-click" data-octo-dimensions="link_type:self" href="https://github.com/techee">@techee</a>'s idea of putting the binary format to soft retirement, but indeed now might be a good time to sit down and think on possible issues it should tackle.</p>

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