Bug #1546 no support for escaping non-printing ASCII charactors
Submitted: 13 Oct 2003 21:33 Modified: 1 Mar 2006 12:46
Reporter: Chris Hinkle Email Updates:
Status: Won't fix Impact on me:
None 
Category:MySQL Server Severity:S4 (Feature request)
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Assigned to: CPU Architecture:Any

[13 Oct 2003 21:33] Chris Hinkle
Description:
It would be nice if non-printing ascii codes were covered in the set of escape metacharactors.

lots of old files have wierd field delimters, ASCII 215, for example. 

I think in general there should be support escaping these codes.  

\dxxx where xxx is the integer ascii code.

might as well add octal and hex code support too.

Additions to documentation should be made if and when this support is added.

How to repeat:
Support is not present in documentation.
[1 Mar 2006 12:46] Valeriy Kravchuk
Why not to use hexademical representation? See http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/hexadecimal-values.html for the details.