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Those characters were "control characters" and used for streaming data over serial, parallel and other devices. Control character could cause some real surprise
by indymike 2y ago
Those characters were "control characters" and used for streaming data over serial, parallel and other devices. Control character could cause some real surprises when you used them.
> There's no escaping escaping...
This is the truth.
- Dylan16807 2y agoXML has gaps in its escaping. (Oops I wrote JSON at first, got the technicalities mixed up.) Null-terminated strings don't have escaping. Fixed width formats don't have escaping. Type-length-value formats don't have escaping. And in practice I do not expect CSV with embedded nulls to work properly, so there's already precedent to reject certain characters entirely in a CSV-like format.