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Susan Malaika scripsit: > OS390 [NEL] is like Apple Macintosh [CR] which is like UNIX [LF] so > why not have the same Unicode representation for all 3? :-) Round-trippability. Unix and MS-DOS both use ASCII, but have different line-end conventions. We do not want to have separate conversion tables (to and from Unicode) for different operating systems' notion of plain text. (Bad enough we have to handle different charsets/ code pages, but at least they can be OS-independent.) So there is a Unicode equivalent for every control character (33 in C0, 32 in C1, 64 in EBCDIC), and line-end differences have to be adjusted above that level. I.e. at the XML level. -- John Cowan cowan@c... One art/there is/no less/no more/All things/to do/with sparks/galore --Douglas Hofstadter
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