Microsoft Word and the RichEdits display your example the Unix way,
i.e., a lone <LF> (not preceeded by a <CR>) is treated as an
end-of-paragraph mark. In fact, RichEdit 2.0 does option 2, i.e.,
supports everything, although I agree that in the good old days, a <LF>
had the meaning you expect. Unix has shifted the most likely
interpretation to be EOP.
Murray
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Unicode Discussion [SMTP:unicode@unicode.org]
> Sent: Thursday, May 22, 1997 1:27 PM
> To: Multiple Recipients of
> Subject: Re: Unicode Plain Text
>
> On 20 May 97 at 18:13, clarkcb@corp.sykes.com wrote:
>
> > As for usage standards, such as CRLF vs. CR vs. LF vs. LS vs. PS,
> etc., we
> > have two options:
> > 1. agree on definitive standards now, and support nothing but, or
> > 2. support everything
> > Now, I have done enough programming to know that supporting more
> means more
> > headaches, but I still feel that the second option is the better one
> at this
> > time. Feedback?
>
> Option 2 doesn't work, precisely because there are incompatible uses
> of several of the characters. For example, I expect text like
>
> a<LF>four<LF>line<LF>poem
>
> to display as
>
> a
> four
> line
> poem
>
> but a UNIX person probably expects to see
>
> a
> four
> line
> poem
>
>
> Tony Harminc
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