> On 21 Feb 2020, at 13:21, Costello, Roger L. via Unicode > <unicode@unicode.org> wrote: > > There are binary files and there are text files.
In C, when opening a file as binary with the function fopen, the newlines are untranslated [1]. If not using this option, the file is informally text, which means that internally in the program, one can assume that the newline [2] is the character U+000A LINE FEED (LF). 1. https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/io/c/fopen 2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newline