Hi,

On Wed, Mar 25, 2026 at 11:04 AM Marco Pivetta <[email protected]> wrote:

>
> On Tue, 24 Mar 2026 at 19:29, Levi Morrison <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
>> There hasn't been much discussion, so dear internals: are simply busy,
>> un-opinionated, or what?
>>
>
> I'd vote against this proposal: `\0` being considered one of the stripped
> characters is now a downstream assumption, and this ends up being a BC
> break with little to no advantages.
>
> From a semantic perspective, `\n`, `\t` and `\r` are also "control
> characters" in other contexts (not the C world).
>

Thanks for putting this into clear works: this is exactly my fear too.

Since the very first message of this thread arrived here, my thoughts were
along the lines this is outright dangerous to do: there is "decades" of
downstream assumption how this works and it's IMPOSSIBLE to properly vet
this, as this operates often on the (potentially untrusted) input level.

And, AFAICS, a perfectly valid workaround is possible by just providing as
custom 2nd arg.

IM(H)O this should never come to a vote, doing this shouldn't even be
considered.

sincerely,
- Markus

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