On Jan 13, 2015, at 10:31 AM, Karl Williamson <pub...@khwilliamson.com> wrote:
> What Perl does to handle this is to simple swap the NEL and LF code points. > That makes \n mean NEL instead of LF. Apparently LF is unused in EBCDIC > applications, so it works. There is official support for this swap, as > Unicode's definition of how to get UTF-8 to work on EBCDIC platforms says to > do the swap. Huh. Good to know (and have it documented now!). > It does mean that NL doesn't mean the character that a native EBCDIC speaker > would think. > > But the bottom line is that because of this character swapping, the NEL > characters in EBCDIC appear as \n, so aren't a problem for CP1252. Nice. So should we then adopt the same pattern as the HTML 5 spec? And I wonder if that W3 spec issue you pointed to the other day could use a comment to this effect. Best, David
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