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Re:Boustrophedon by jaclaz on Wednesday October 25, 2017 @08:15AM (#15549392)
More or less the ancient Greeks - in their simplicity - chose to use ASCII 10 (newline/line feed) instead of 13+10 (carriage return+line feed). ;-)

https://blog.codinghorror.com/the-great-newline-schism/

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Re:Boustrophedon by maaark on Wednesday October 25, 2017 @11:00AM (#15550664)
>Even if you rule out unicode and stick to old-school ASCII, like most Facebook relationships … it's complicated.

Brilliant, encoding problems in an article about encoding!

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