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On Mon, 19 Mar 2001, Susan Malaika wrote:
>
>
> > What I don't understand is if NELs and CRs mean the
> > same thing, why do they have different Unicode
> > representations?
>
> OS390 [NEL] is like Apple Macintosh [CR] which is like UNIX [LF] so
> why not have the same Unicode representation for all 3? :-)
Because then ASCII couldn't be a valid subset of UTF8.
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