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I wasn't around at the time, but surely ASCII was (even if not ubiquitous)? Is there any particular reason that the FS/GS/RS/US (file/group/record/unit separato
by endgame 2y ago
I wasn't around at the time, but surely ASCII was (even if not ubiquitous)? Is there any particular reason that the FS/GS/RS/US (file/group/record/unit separator) characters didn't catch on in this role?
- al_borland 2y agoIf I had to take a guess, I’d say the answer is as simple as there is no key for them on the keyboard.
- euroderf 2y agoSounds like a job for a macOS keyboard code whiz.
- EvanAnderson 2y agoI did an ETL project years ago from a legacy app that used these delimiters. It was gloriously easy. No need to worry about escaping (as these characters were illegal in the input). It's a shame they didn't catch on.