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Over 25% of the original ASCII specification is control characters.
by zorpner 7mo ago
Over 25% of the original ASCII specification is control characters.
- WalterBright 7mo agoTrue. 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.