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[–] Andromxda@lemmy.dbzer0.com 32 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

\n already is an escape sequence, consisting of \, the escape character, and n, the code that is responsible for the new line. Together they form an escape sequence.

[–] Bldck@beehaw.org 5 points 1 month ago

This person unicodes

[–] Nomecks@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Sure, but if you don't escape the \ then you likely won't even be able to get the name into the first system. You need the name to contain \n so that it gets passed correctly to other systems, otherwise his name may wind up just being "John" .