CRLF is obsolete and should be abolished

Re:CRLF is obsolete and should be abolished by mattmerr on Sunday October 13, 2024 @04:37PM (#41831369)

ASCII already has designated bytes for unit, group, and record separators. That aside, a big drawback of using unprintable bytes like these is they're more difficult for humans to read in dumps or type on a keyboard than a newline (provided newline has a strict definition CRLF, LF, etc)

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Re:CRLF is obsolete and should be abolished by fijiaarone on Sunday October 13, 2024 @10:32PM (#41833693)

There is no reason those ascii characters need to stay unprintable. You could use other characters like an interpunct, silcrow, or down carat.

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Re:CRLF is obsolete and should be abolished by eqvinox on Monday October 14, 2024 @04:31AM (#41835469)

There is in fact a reason those ASCII 'characters' should stay unprintable: the 0x00-0x1f (except Tab, CR, LF) range is explicitly excluded as invalid in a whole bunch of standards, e.g. XML.

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