--- In [email protected], "entropyreduction" 
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> I want to use a non-printing character as escape marker in esc().  
> 
> esc("ddd\x02n", "\x02") is accepted but doesn't return a newline as
> last character.  Should it?  Have I got syntax wrong?
>


Looking at the code for esc function, for reasons I cannot recall but I 
am sure seemed extremely good at the time, esc does not do escaping if 
the second arg is <0x20.  Try
esc("ddd\xfen", "\xfe")

or similar.

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