In <[email protected]>, on
10/29/2011
   at 03:51 PM, Paul Gilmartin <[email protected]> said:

>What's "really" LF?

Move to the same column of the next line, of course. What else could
it be?

>0x0A?

That makes no sense in the context of "data where LF really means LF
and CR really means CR."

>But there's still a way out:

No; you're replacing one set of problems with another. At best it's
the least of the evils.

>Define a new code page (perhaps IBM-1047-X) with NEL at 0x25 and LF
>at 0x15; otherwise identical to IBM-1047.

With what translation from ISO-8859-1?

>Honesty is the best policy,

Define "honesty" in the context of current and proposed code-page
translations.
 
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     Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT
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