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[–] iAvicenna@lemmy.world 22 points 3 months ago (3 children)

why settle for \n when you can go for the stylish carriage return

[–] Scrollone@feddit.it 10 points 3 months ago (1 children)

¿Porqué no los dos? A nice \r\n, Windows style.

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[–] Blackmist@feddit.uk 21 points 3 months ago

This sounds like the start of another sovcit "loophole"

[–] rekabis@lemmy.ca 20 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (2 children)

A line break is a non-printable character. So it would only work in the scope of electronic storage. The minute it hits other media, the line break character is subject to how that media handles it’s presence, and then it is lost permanently from that step forward.

Plus, many input forms make use of validation that will just trim anything that isn’t a character or number, removing the line break character.

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[–] vordalack@lemm.ee 20 points 3 months ago

It's time to log off and get a vasectomy

[–] EtherWhack@lemmy.world 17 points 3 months ago (1 children)

What about an open bracket? (

[–] fsr1967@lemmy.world 14 points 3 months ago (5 children)
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[–] OhStopYellingAtMe@lemmy.world 15 points 3 months ago

Always sanitize your Data inputs.

[–] YourNetworkIsHaunted@awful.systems 14 points 3 months ago

Anyone remember when Chrome had that issue with validating nested URL-encoded characters? Anyone for John%%80%80 Doe?

[–] humanspiral@lemmy.ca 13 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Am I allowed to include sql command words such as drop table in my child's name?

[–] owenfromcanada@lemmy.world 13 points 3 months ago

Simmer down, Bobby

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[–] x4740N@lemm.ee 10 points 3 months ago

I'm not american and I'm glad I'm not but intended if someone could enter a bunch of zero width spaces

[–] bandwidthcrisis@lemmy.world 9 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Unix or dos format?

Anyway, you probably need to put a backslash before it to indicate line continuation.

But wouldn't it be better to use something more traditional, such as ?

[–] toynbee@lemmy.world 9 points 3 months ago (1 children)

HTML is more traditional than \n?

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[–] chaitae3@lemmy.world 9 points 3 months ago

Apparently no-one did it yet, so I'll name my child +++ATH0

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