Programmer Humor

Na, names are about pronunciation (how you call someone). Written letters are an approximation of that. You can't pronounce a newline, so there's that.

asking questions like this is how i found out that one of the allowed characters in names in my country is ÿ, which is fine in Latin-1 but in 7-bit ASCII is DEL.

"We call her Carrie, because of the carriage return."

You can also try to give the child NULL as middle name for additional fun.

If elected president my first order of business will be to make all birth certificates fully unicode compatible.

There are a frightening number of systems that don't allow "-", which isn't even an edge case. A lot of people - mostly women - hyphenate their last names on marriage, rather than throw their old name away. My wife did. She legally changed her name when she came of age, and when we met and married years later she said, "I paid for money for my name; I'm not letting it go." (Note: I wasn't pressuring her to take my name.) So she hyphenated it, and has come to regret the decision. She says she should have switched, or not, but the hyphen causes problems everywhere. It's not a legal character in a lot of systems, including some government systems.

A line break is a non-printable character. So it would only work in the scope of electronic storage. The minute it hits other media, the line break character is subject to how that media handles it’s presence, and then it is lost permanently from that step forward.

Plus, many input forms make use of validation that will just trim anything that isn’t a character or number, removing the line break character.

Easy, John\nDoe

That's easy, just call it Jhon\nDoe

I want the char 8 that makes a beep.

Just noticed that the listing for ; DROP TABLE "COMPANIES"; -- LTD has been redacted by the government website‽

What's the answer? I need the link

Edit: I found it