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RE: Help with searching for carriage return symbol



Reply to note from TBaehr@xxxxxxxx Mon, 10 Dec 2001 17:06:25 EST

> If you're writing xpl that includes searches with user input,
> you should at least use an unusual character.

Or, better still, a non-existent one. In the Jumbo U2, we use a
Speedo character in the unassigned range [910]-[1021], usually
either [999] or [1000]. Since these entities don't correspond to
actual characters, the chances of their showing up in user input are
effectively nil.

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Carl Distefano
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