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On 05 Jun 2014 08:39:34 GMT, Steven D'Aprano <steve@pearwood.info>
declaimed the following:


>Treating \t as a single space would be pathetic but standard. Treating it 
>as (up to) 8 spaces would be more useful, and standard. Rendering it as a 
>picture of a banana dancing on the ceiling would be silly and non-
>standard. Not rendering it at all is even more stupid and less justified.

	The banana has no mnemonic sense... Rendering a tea-cup with a teaspoon
leaning out to the left side, OTOH <G>

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