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[โ€“] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

so John\r Doe ? depending on the software, when it gets printed, the carriage return will move the cursor to the start of the line without moving a line down, becoming \x20Doe.

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

This is the ideal rendition, I would say. On a related note, I just love it when there are backspaces in my filenames