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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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[-] MinekPo1@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

depends on your format ? if the format is binary anyway or has binary blobs (ie it needs a program that is able to handle octets outside the printable range) and using those characters does not introduce any ambiguities with the format then go for it . ANSI and related control codes all start with 0x1B

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