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Japan to change laws that require use of floppy disks

Norman Nescio Silver badge

Re: Obsolete regulations are best regulations

I feel several opportunities have been missed in not standardising on the ASCII control codes for Unit Separator (character 31, Hex 1F) and Record Separator (character 30, Hex 1E) in file formats used for data exchange.

Wikipedia:Field Separators

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