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CRLF is obsolete and should be abolished

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422 points km | 1 comments | 13 Oct 24 19:16 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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anonymousiam ◴[13 Oct 24 21:42 UTC] No.41831895[source]▶
This article seems like it was written to troll people into a flame war. There is no such character as NL, and the article does not at all address that fact that the "ENTER" key on every keyboard sends a CR and not a LF. Things work fine the way they are.
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eviks ◴[14 Oct 24 05:31 UTC] No.41834483[source]▶
> There is no such character as NL,

There is, copying from a helpful comment above:

> The Unicode standard does call it NL along with LF.

    000A  <control>
      = LINE FEED (LF)
      = new line (NL)
      = end of line (EOL)
Source: https://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U0000.pdf

And things don't work fine, there are many issues with this historical baggage

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1. anonymousiam ◴[14 Oct 24 16:07 UTC] No.41838864[source]▶
I agree that there are issues. Making radical changes to legacy behavior will cause more.