[deweller]

I'm pretty sure the canonical use case for this would be for including complex binary data in a URL. A URL shortener might be a good example.

[DenisM]

Another thing people don't talk much about is copy-paste. Double click on an alphanumeric will select the entire thing, whereas other characters might cause selection to end prematurely, and differently so in different text editors.

[hc]

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