Re: \r\n vs. CRLF (was Re: Why do we use '-- ' as a .sig separator ?)

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From: m... Miguel Carrasquer Vidal
Date: Fri, 06 Feb 1998 00:00

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On Fri, 6 Feb 1998 13:23:31 -0600, "George R. Gonzalez"
<g...@foundsys.com> wrote:

>Now it's too late to change.  Maybe ISO could promulgate one end of line
>character 

They have.  "Unicode" (can't remember the ISO-xxxx number offhand)
defines U+2028 as LINE SEPARATOR (U+2029 being PARAGRAPH SEPARATOR).

>and over the next few decades it could be patched into programs
>and data, but I suspect CR and LF will still be around and confusing us
>for decades.

Yes, that too.

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Miguel Carrasquer Vidal
m...@wxs.nl
Amsterdam

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From: m...@wxs.nl (Miguel Carrasquer Vidal)
Subject: Re: \r\n vs. CRLF (was Re: Why do we use '-- ' as a .sig separator ?)
Date: 1998/02/06
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