(skeletor is leading by example by adding that unnecessary apostrophe…)

    • body_by_make
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      104 months ago

      \t is your best shot. For good measure, you’ll also want to add double quotes (can be used to escape commas in CSVs), double double quotes, back slashes, and |s, just to mess with anyone trying to sanitize a CSV with your password in it.

    • Yes, char(9) is the SQL string for it.

      However most modern password attributes are blocking this from SQL injections where a playfully named user “Drop Table” does not cause any harm

    • @perviouslyiner@lemmy.world
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      4 months ago

      Of course. In Windows you can hold Alt and type 0 0 9 before releasing the Alt key to enter the character without triggering any “move to next field” behaviour. In *nix it should be Ctrl+I.

      Similar with other control characters - NUL (0) might be harder to type, yet substantially more likely to break things!

      SHY is good if you’d like a character which can’t be seen, without needing to resort to Unicode.