The day Return became Enter

Re:The day Return became Enter by paffdragon on Tuesday September 02, 2025 @03:58AM (#45100271)

Wouldn't we still need a "Line Separator" character so we can include line breaks in fields and records for formatting purposes?

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Re:The day Return became Enter by rswail on Tuesday September 02, 2025 @04:23AM (#45100401)

RS separates logical "lines" or there is "Group Separator", but for internal line separators in a multi-line text field, the CR and LF characters could be used, because they have "standard" meanings for text:

CR: move next character position to position 1 horizontally LF: move next character position to vertically below current character position, potentially inserting SP characters.

So a combination of CR/LF, or LF/CR would have the effect of "New Line".

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