• From: John Cowan <jcowan@r...>
• To: David Carlisle <davidc@n...>
• Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2001 12:51:53 -0400

David Carlisle wrote:


> But does it? (this is a real question)
> Why can't the mapping from ebcdic to unicode always map NEL to #10
> Are there any non XML use cases that require an ebcdic file to be mapped
> to unicode and to contain three distinct characters, NEL #10 and #13.


I don't know.  Any mainframe types that can weigh in here?

Round-trippability is presumably a Good Thing, though, and since there
are three EBCDIC controls CR, LF, and NEL, they presumably have
uses for them.


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