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by kps 1252 days ago
> The absurdity that an upper 8-bit ascii range character would be an elementary control character in a terminal.

Wait 'til you hear about the C1 control set (ยง5.3 in the current version of ECMA-48).

> Gen z programmers, not even once.

I know I shouldn't even reply to this, but I'm old enough that I have used physical 8-bit ASCII terminals with C1 controls (and ISO 2022 page switching).