On Wed, Jan 29, 2003 at 10:39:00PM -0800, Brion Vibber wrote:
> On mer, 2003-01-29 at 22:29, Tomasz Wegrzanowski wrote:
> > Some minor things got wrong with new version of texvc.
> > Here are fixes.
>
> Before I forget it again, do we have a working solution for the
> 15-byte-hash problem? It's still striking (see [[en:Talk:Ellipse]] for
> latest example.)
>
> If nothing else, storing the hash as a hex string instead of binary
> ought to do it, but that seems inelegant.
>
> -- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)
I didn't code anything about that.
As far as I understand it just strips trailing spaces, so we can simply
append 16-lenght(md5) bytes of " " to whatever database returns.
Even easier thing would be to unpack (md5 ." ")
instead of just md5 (first 16 bytes will be used only).