The answer makes sense to me, but I wish we could fix editors to properly handle the ASCII separators (1C, 1D, 1E, 1F) instead of resorting to Unicode control picture characters (241C, 241D, 241E, 241F).
Maybe if editors are fixed up we could adopt ASCII Separated Values (ASV) as the new standard.
Emacs has handled literal ASCII control characters correctly I believe since around the time I was born - probably somewhat earlier, if we count back further than GNU.
Unicode works fine there too, so it makes no nevermind to me which flavor people use. I just think it's funny how "everything old is new again".
Maybe if editors are fixed up we could adopt ASCII Separated Values (ASV) as the new standard.
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