I'm not american and I'm glad I'm not but intended if someone could enter a bunch of zero width spaces
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C programmers would ask whether a null-terminated name would be acceptable
Once I was tasked with doing QA testing for an app which was planned to initially go live in the states of Georgia and Tenessee. One of the required fields was the user's legal name. I therefore looked up the laws on baby names in those two states.
Georgia has simple rules where a child's forename must be a sequence of the 26 regular Latin letters.
Tenessee seemed to only require that a child's name was writable under some writing system, which would imply any unicode code point is permissible.
At the time, I logged a bug that a hypothetical user born in Tenessee with a name consisting of a single emoji couldn't enter their legal name. I reckon it would also be legal to call a Tenessee baby 'John '.
im sure the devs tasked at fixing that bug loved u ;-)
Sounds like you did a thorough job as a QA tester. As a software engineer, I love to see it.
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why settle for \n when you can go for the stylish carriage return
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.
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¿Porqué no los dos? A nice \r\n, Windows style.
Gotta band it Windows tho, it just feels right, I want to enjoy my fake typewriter
No, cause "John\nDoe" messes up my regex. Sorry, out of the question. I'm not good with regex.