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Using Unicode graphic characters as metasyntactic escape characters is fundamentally wrong. Those Unicode characters are for displaying the symbols for Unit Se
by teddyh 3y ago
Using Unicode graphic characters as metasyntactic escape characters is fundamentally wrong. Those Unicode characters are for displaying the symbols for Unit Separator, Record Separator, etc. and not for actually being separators! ASCII already has those! Included in Unicode!
- layer8 3y agoTo be fair, I don’t quite get those graphic characters, because the original characters should already be displayed that way, shouldn’t they? Now when I see such a character, I have no idea if it’s the real character or just it’s graphic-character counterpart.
- teddyh 3y agoI like the LINE FEED character to be interpreted as a line feed, not displayed as “␊”.
- lsaferite 3y agoI mean, my assumption (yeah, I know) is that the 'display' variant is more for documentation talking _about_ the control character and not meant to _be_ the control character. Abusing the 'display' variant this way seems... misguided.