From: Woody Peterson <woody.peterson@...>
Date: 2010-07-31T02:38:47+09:00
Subject: Re: binary encode 7 ([7].pack("C")) as "\007" instead of "\a"

> The basic problem is that ruby encodes the integer 7 as "\a", while
> erlang only decodes it as "\007"

Correction, this is actually a non-issue. The basic problem is that I 
was encoding binary data to its C escape sequences in my test (via 
to_s), and erlang will automatically decode this back to binary, except 
for the number 7. Thus it *appeared* like it was almost working, when in 
fact I was just doing it wrong. Sending the binary, not the escape 
sequences, is what I should have been doing. Apologies for the extra 
email, maybe this will save some poor confused soul someday...
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