Comment 5 for bug 568289

No. The binary file is not a direct binary version of the text file. Instead, the binary file is created by loading the text file to a data structure and then serializing the data structure to a file. The bug was in the method that loaded the names from the text file, so the mishandled names ended up in the binary file.

Also, the binary file need to be gz-ed manually, which almost made me think that I haven't fixed the bug on the first test run - Stellarium used the old .gz file instead of the freshly generated .bin file.