[TristanBall]

Yup.

And teaching yourself and your tools to use them as delimiters is damn near a superpower for semi-structured/tabular text forms ( aka csv/tsv and co ).

Issues with field definition, escaping, and embedded newlines all but go away.. newlines being the harder ones because some tools just insist on being line based and will hard code variants of cr/lf as newlines.

And they retain their meaning and uniqueness in utf8 ( true of all the ascii control codes ), which is an under appreciated feature imnsho.

[euroderf]

I would use them (more) if they had some decent icons in fonts.