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Re:The Magic 0xC2 by chuckdries on Tuesday April 11, 2017 @01:07PM (#14090080)
So the server was erroneously treating the images as text?
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Re:The Magic 0xC2 by koehr on Tuesday April 11, 2017 @01:37PM (#14090439)
Not the server but the browser. It looks like FileReader.readAsBinaryString is falling back to readAsText since it's deprecated. Just an assumption though. I couldn't find any better evidence.
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