On Oct 10, 2008, at 11:25 AM, Nicholas Clark wrote:
On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 06:31:41PM +0100, Smylers wrote:
It isn't possible to have an 'actual' \n character; all actual
characters will be specific, not conceptual.
EBCDIC has a "new line" control character distinct from both line
feed and
carriage return. So I'd argue that your statement only holds for
99.999% or
so of systems :-)
Ah, EBCDIC. I'm sure that's a whole new universe of hate.
Constructions like [A-Za-z] are non-portable to EBCDIC, since the
alphabetic code points are non-contiguous.
At least Mac OS 9 is ASCII.
Josh
