[HN Gopher] The End-of-Line Story (2004)
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       The End-of-Line Story (2004)
        
       Author : susam
       Score  : 13 points
       Date   : 2024-06-22 12:55 UTC (1 days ago)
        
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       | ktpsns wrote:
       | I haven't seen end-of-line conversion problems (as well as
       | Unicode BOMs) for decades. My guess is that software quality
       | improved these days. MS Notepad was a noteable tool which always
       | mocked around with unix-style line endings. Using dos2unix and
       | unix2dos utilities was something I commonly used in the early
       | 2000s, in particular on dual boot computers. This was also the
       | time where UTF-8 was not yet so widespread, but that is another
       | topic ;-)
        
       | drdec wrote:
       | > This choice was designed to spread the pain equally among all
       | operating systems of the day; each has to translate to and from
       | the CR LF convention when text was transferred across the
       | network.
       | 
       | On the one hand, this seems clever and fair. On the other hand,
       | this is why we can't have nice things.
        
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