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		madaxe_again on Aug 14, 2015 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Blinking Commits Every time I use a control character, my mind strays back to CHR$141. Although I do wonder what havoc you could wreak on hosted git services with cunning sequences of control characters. Smacks of injection.

alxndr on Aug 15, 2015 [–]

If anyone else is curious about CHR$141, it's how you can show doubly-tall letters on an Acorn BBC Micro's teletext display...

http://www.bbcbasic.co.uk/bbcwin/manual/bbcwinh.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teletext

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