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I have always wondered why there is so little use of the separators in ASCII (the file, group, record and unit separators with codes 28-31). They seem perfect f

I have always wondered why there is so little use of the separators in ASCII (the file, group, record and unit separators with codes 28-31). They seem perfect for the job and it would be easy to forbid inclusion of those characters in fields.

derbOac 5y ago
I didn't know they existed, but now I do, and am wondering the same thing!
Ekaros 5y ago
It's sad that so much ascii space is wasted on characters that are used... Really should replace that standard with something better...