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Tangentially, I'm a bit surprised that we've completely dropped the ASCII separator control characters: 28/0x1C FS (File Separator), 29/0x1D GS (Group Separator), 30/0x1E RS (Record Separator), 21/0x1F US (Unit Separator).

It's a pity, because I usually see Space (32/0x20) as the record separator, which I suppose is convenient because it works well in a standard text editor, but it does mean we've built up decades of habit/trauma-avoidance about avoiding spaces in names, replacing them with underscores (_) or dashes (-)...



BTW, at least in a Unix terminal you can input the separator characters using Ctl with another char (because terminals inherit from the time when modifier keys just set/unset bits in the input), so:

- 28/0x1C FS = Ctl-\

- 29/0x1D GS = Ctl-]

- 30/0x1E RS = Ctl-^

- 31/0x1F US = Ctrl-_




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