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Asking the real questions (jlai.lu)

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[–] lseif@sopuli.xyz 10 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

so John\r Doe ? depending on the software, when it gets printed, the carriage return will move the cursor to the start of the line without moving a line down, becoming \x20Doe.

[–] sukhmel@programming.dev 4 points 1 week ago

This is the ideal rendition, I would say. On a related note, I just love it when there are backspaces in my filenames