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[Richard B. Gilbert]

MetaEd wrote:
> On Aug 5, 2:41 am, hel... at astro.multiCLOTHESvax.de (Phillip Helbig---
> undress to reply) wrote:
>> "=" is a poor choice of escape.  Some rarer character, such as
>> "\" (used by TeX, for this reason) would have been better.
> 
> Yes, and was considered. But backslash would not reliably pass through
> EBCDIC gateways, which (believe it or not) was a major headache at the
> time. The author of the quoted-printable spec wrote that the following
> characters could not be counted on to get through: !"#$@[\]^`{|}~

Does *anyone* still use EBCDIC?