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   ✧✦✶✷Catherine✷✶✦✧ (whitequark@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 23-Jan-2025 13:49:58 JST ✧✦✶✷Catherine✷✶✦✧

   JavaScript has both vertical tab \v and form feed \f as escape sequences

   JSON includes form feed \f but not vertical tab

   why?

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     Rich Felker (dalias@hachyderm.io)'s status on Thursday, 23-Jan-2025 13:49:58 JST Rich Felker

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     @whitequark This is utterly stupid (no reason to break precedent) but probably FF was deemed somewhat useful (appears in lots of document formats, even source code files) and VT rather useless (I don't think I've ever seen it in practice).

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     Andrew Zonenberg (azonenberg@ioc.exchange)'s status on Thursday, 23-Jan-2025 14:49:06 JST Andrew Zonenberg

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     • Rich Felker

     @whitequark @dalias I have never seen either outside of an ascii table.

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     Rich Felker (dalias@hachyderm.io)'s status on Thursday, 23-Jan-2025 14:49:06 JST Rich Felker

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     • Andrew Zonenberg

     @azonenberg @whitequark You'll find it in paginated plain text files formatted for line printer.

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     ✧✦✶✷Catherine✷✶✦✧ (whitequark@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 23-Jan-2025 14:49:07 JST ✧✦✶✷Catherine✷✶✦✧

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     • Rich Felker

     @dalias nobody outside of GNU ever used \f