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Re:UTF-8 Everywhere (2012) by Yaggo on Monday June 20, 2016 @02:02AM (#11936305)
The universal line ending character is \n. (Except in Microsoft's universe, but that's never been compatible with the rest.)
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Re:UTF-8 Everywhere (2012) by skrause on Monday June 20, 2016 @05:38AM (#11937026)
Not true, most of the plain text protocols like SMTP, FTP, HTTP/1.1 etc. also mandate \r\n.
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