From: Patrick Andries (patrick.andries@xcential.com)
Date: Mon Mar 07 2005 - 00:51:06 CST
Doug Ewell a écrit :
>Unicode introduced a pair of simply delightful characters, U+2028 LINE
>SEPARATOR and U+2029 PARAGRAPH SEPARATOR, that promised to do away with
>the confusing and conflicting practices regarding CR and LF once and for
>all. The Unix and Windows/DOS and Macintosh worlds would finally be
>able to interchange text files without all that petty CR/LF conversion,
>or the frustration of tools that won't accept each other's line-ending
>convention.
>
>Tragically, U+2028 and U+2029 are almost completely unused today, while
>the CR/LF silliness continues. Ironically, it was probably the success
>of UTF-8, with its promise of ASCII compatibility, that spelled the end
>for U+2028.
>
How about the impact of XML's choice of converting line-end characters
(even U+2028) to U+000A ?
P. A.
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