MySQL Bugs: #1546: no support for escaping non-printing ASCII charactors

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

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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.

Why not to use hexademical representation? See http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/hexadecimal-values.html for the details.