Except if your original string was "%org-9.0"...

For this kind of approach to work, you generally need to prefix everything; specifically included the cases that are _not_ encoded.

Regards - Neil

On 12/08/17 16:01, John Kitchin wrote:

I was thinking of something like how all PDF files start with something
like %PDF-1.3. So any string that started with %org-9.0, for example
would be certain to be encoded, whereas any other beginning would not be
certain.

Nicolas Goaziou writes:

Hello,

John Kitchin <jkitchin@andrew.cmu.edu> writes:

Could you put some magic at the beginning of the string that indicates it
is encoded?

I don't know. Could you elaborate a bit?

Regards,