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Unicode is for human beings, not machines.

• WalterBright 7mo ago
  How does invisible Unicode text fit into that?
  • chongli 7mo ago
    It's not text, it's control characters, which have always been in character sets going back to ASCII.
    • WalterBright 7mo ago
      ASCII having a few obsolete control characters does not justify opening the floodgates.
      • zorpner 7mo ago
        Over 25% of the original ASCII specification is control characters.
        • WalterBright 7mo ago
          True. And nearly all of them are obsolete. Many were intended for control flow on an interactive terminal, which have long since passed into obsolescence. When was the last time you embedded a CTRL-C in text? The only ones that matter any more are newline and space.