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Can you use 0x1E-0x1F ASCII codes? (lemm.ee)
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After needing to find a small delimiter for my data format I started wondering if I could use 0x1E-0x1F?

They are part of the control codes so I thought they might do something weird?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C0_and_C1_control_codes#Field_separators

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[-] bamboo@lemm.ee 9 points 1 day ago

Depends on if you want your data format to be strict ascii. If you don’t care, then sure, why not?

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