>> The point being, if you want to store some binary data in the middle of
>> a textual configuration file, you have to base64 encode it or something
>> (which is less efficient). If you want to stick some binary data in the
>> registry, you can just store it as binary.
>
> No, you don't have to encode it as base64.  It's perfectly legal to
> create a file with text components and binary components.  Because it's
> just a file.

It's perfectly *legal*, but nobody does it because then you wouldn't be 
able to just throw the file through grep or something and expect it to work.

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