On Mon, 11 Sep 2006 02:24:59 +0200, Ron Teitelbaum wrote:

> Could I also mention that if you are going to print unprintable  
> characters
> as a box that you allocate space for that box?

+1

> Having a box print over a
> printable character is really a waste and makes no sense.

+ (1 big)

> There are
> perfectly good reasons for including non printable characters in strings,
> there are a number of protocols that use these characters as separators.

/Klaus

> Thanks,
>
> Ron Teitelbaum