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Re:What Character Was Removed from the Alphabet? by Symbiote on Saturday June 17, 2023 @10:48AM (#36370650)
The standard characters are ASCII/Unicode field separator, group separator, record separator and unit separator.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C0_and_C1_control_codes#Field_...

Re:What Character Was Removed from the Alphabet? by jeroenhd on Saturday June 17, 2023 @01:30PM (#36372326)
I have actually used two of these in some kind of hell SQL query that needed to concatenate strings for the fastest path between database and frontend as possible. I was surprised to see how well it actually worked, I assumed surely some kind of step in the middle of the chain would break non-printable characters.

Not using these is wasting so many bits of one-byte character encodings, I don't understand why we even need to bother escaping CSV files if we could just use the appropriate control characters instead.