It is a shame that there are no @ or #, otherwise xe could have demonstrated why the old defaults for the line discipline's special characters were as they were

It is a shame that there are no @ or #, otherwise xe could have demonstrated why the old defaults for the line discipline's special characters were as they were. I notice that xe did not attempt to manually turn the iulcl or olcuc line discipline flags on with stty. Linux does not actually support xcase, though, not that there is a backslash anyway. (-: