Anyone remember when Chrome had that issue with validating nested URL-encoded characters? Anyone for John%%80%80 Doe?
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why settle for \n when you can go for the stylish carriage return
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.
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Na, names are about pronunciation (how you call someone). Written letters are an approximation of that. You can't pronounce a newline, so there's that.
John
(long pause)
Doe
Just crouch down to simulate moving to a lower line.
John Doe
Try telling that to
.
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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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This sounds like the start of another sovcit "loophole"
I'm not american and I'm glad I'm not but intended if someone could enter a bunch of zero width spaces
John
Doe, related to Derrick Nippl-e perhaps? (Fry and Laurie)