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On Fri, 8 Oct 2004 16:26:33 +0000 Luke-Jr <luke-jr@...> wrote:
| > Yup. We *need* to have an official encoding. Reason being, at least
| > one developer has a non-(ASCII as in characters 0..126 only)
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| ASCII defines 128 characters: 0-127
| Why cut the last off?
As I recall, 127 is flaky. Come to think of it, so is 0-31ish as well.
So maybe I should've said [a-zA-Z0-9\-_,.<>?/\\;:'@#~\]{}\+="$%^&* ] or
something... Basically, anything even the slightest bit flaky, plus
newlines, is prone to explode.
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