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Author: Sean Crist (Nuance Communications)
Email: kurisuto1 at yahoo dot com
Date: 2007-08-01 12:56:33
Subject: Re: newline return character sequences
> I notice in the downloaded .txt file that newlines are expressed as simply
> a newline character (ascii decimal 10) rather than what would be standard on a
> windows system (13 10). Is there a standand for this in place as to what you
> want/need? I'm assuming you will be familiar with the difference between
> /r/n and just /n on different systems, if not I can explain my question further.
>
> I would have checked if this issue was on the board before, but 500 messages and
> no search function ;)
>
> --charlie
You're quite right that control-m control-j (
) is used for line breaks in Windows. In the Unix world, the standard is just control-j (
). It used to be the case that the standard among Macintoshes was just control-m (
).
All of the project materials use just control-j, as in the Unix world. There's not really any technical benefit to one over the other, but there is a benefit to being consistent. The closest thing to an argument that I could make in favor of just control-j is that the major Internet protocols originated in Unix, and so the Unix way of doing things tends to be at least accommodated on most platforms.
--Sean