Thank you.  This makes it all very clear.

On Tue, 5 Mar 2002, James Allwright wrote:

> On Tue 05 Mar 2002 at 11:46AM -0600, Christian Cepel wrote:
> > I'm a bit confused, reading through the documentation available
> online.
> >
> > Our first task in development is of course to parse an abc file.  I'm
> > trying to figure out, per the 1.6 standard, WHAT EXACTLY the
> _approved_
> > linefeed/newline character, and encoding are for abc.
> >
>
> The problem is that there is no standard for the line separator in text
> files (or to be more precise, different OS's use different standards).
> The way round this is to allow any of the following as the separator
>
> <lf>
> <cr>
> <lf><cr>
> <cr><lf>
>
> If you write the file out again, either adopt a standard format or leave
> things as they are.
>
> The use of 8-bit ascii in abc is limited to text fields (e.g. Composer,
> Title) where they might have been used for special characters. They are
> not used in the abc itself, so you should probably generate a warning
> if you come across one there.
>
> James Allwright
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