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I feel sorry for you having to use it. Especially the XML version. Stay strong! Fun fact, the SOH delimiter character renders as a smiley face in some terminal

I feel sorry for you having to use it. Especially the XML version. Stay strong! Fun fact, the SOH delimiter character renders as a smiley face in some terminals. Some of the proprietary protocols are fixed width which makes them so much simpler to parse than FIX.

tptacek 11y ago
Fun fact: there are virtually no libraries or frameworks that recognize SOH is a radioactive metacharacter. Hm, maybe shouldn't have given that one away. Oh well, people will forget before we launch.