Text File Formats – ASCII Delimited Text – Not CSV or Tab Delimited Text

Most of the control characters for ASCII have been ignored

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C0_and_C1_control_codes

Just as the ANSI terminal codes other than the ones supported by the VT100 are mainly unimplemented

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ANSI_escape_code

Stumbled across this today, here's a previous discussion from several years ago https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7474600.

Many people (including myself) have come up with the same thing independently.