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fijiaarone 4 months ago | parent | context | favorite | on: CRLF is obsolete and should be abolished

There is no reason those ascii characters need to stay unprintable. You could use other characters like an interpunct, silcrow, or down carat.

eqvinox 4 months ago [–]

There is in fact a reason those ASCII 'characters' should stay unprintable: the 0x00-0x1f (except Tab, CR, LF) range is explicitly excluded as invalid in a whole bunch of standards, e.g. XML.

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