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[Mike Stump]

On Oct 25, 2005, at 4:25 PM, Joe Buck wrote:
> I'm having a hard time picturing source code that
>
>  a) exhibits different behavior because of this bug, and
>  b) is maintainable (remember, the behavior depends on the presence
>     of characters that are completely invisible to many tools).
>
> Perhaps you could explain (without violating the customer's
> confidentiality) how it is that this is an important problem?

Existing ASCII line art in documentation embedded in the source code  
as C++ style comments.