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edwinsn

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Registered: 2010-07-02

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[Suggestion] Support '\n', '\t' in ForumatUtf8

@ab,

It's very common to use '\n' to represent a 'new line', and '\t' to represent a TAB character in the programming.
In the Delphi community, I know at least DK Language supports these notions.
It'll be a nice addition if we can add those support in FormatUtf8

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ab

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Registered: 2010-06-21

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Re: [Suggestion] Support '\n', '\t' in ForumatUtf8

It would break existing code for sure, and it is a C-like feature.
There is no escape in FormatUTF8() - even the % can not be escaped.
In pascal we have 'some text'#10'another line' which is not so awful to write and faster/safer to process.