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Message-ID: <20180412180720.qmtilbpi27kxa3dm@matica.foolinux.mooo.com>
Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2018 11:07:20 -0700
From: Ian Zimmerman <itz@...y.loosely.org>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: Terminal Control Chars

On 2018-04-12 19:13, Jakub Wilk wrote:

> > Perhaps the correct solution would be to prevent the browser from
> > copying invisible characters.
> 
> Do you mean control characters, or something else?

The term "invisible character" has some obvious (if perhaps informal)
meaning.  But I don't really know what "control character" means.  Is a
page separator (^L) a control character, for example?  Is DEL one (ASCII
127)?

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