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I finally managed to work around My Most Annoying Problem (TM) with SQLPlus in my career. SQLPlus will mess up my output when I am copying/posting something in wordpress or elsewhere. Here’s an example to show you what I mean. The output in SQLPlus in my terminal window is all nice and pretty (it’s a print screen):

Many thanks to Jonathan Lewis and his presentation about generating test data by the way!

The above output looks nice at first glance, so I’m copying and pasting this into a document, only to see this (again a print screen; this time from TextWrangler):