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On 02 May 2014 11:55:37 GMT, Steven D'Aprano
<steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> declaimed the following:

>And you've never been bitten by an invisible control character in ASCII 
>text? You've lived a sheltered life!
>
	Xerox Sigma CP/V would even permit them in file names (though the
system was EBCDIC, not ASCII -- just feeding lots of ASCII terminals).

	Think of the pain someone would have trying to figure out where in a 32
character file name the <BEL> was positioned. Even on a 1200bps serial
line, one couldn't really determine between which printable characters the
terminal beeped while listing the directory.

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