On Sun, 27 Jun 2021 22:52:26 +0000, Seymour J Metz wrote:
> ...
>They originally wrote Unix for ASCII, which doesn't have a new line character.
>Unix, and C, used a line feed as a logical new line, but I don't know what The
>Open Group or IEEE say about that. OMVS uses an EBCDIC NL character for the
>purpose. Linux uses an ASCII LF, even Linux on z.
>
Alas, while iconv on Linux maps:
IBM-104 ISO8859-1
LF <-> LF
NL <-> NEL (the only code points with no precise eequivalence)
... which seems logical.
iconv on z/OS UNIX System services maps:
LF <-> NEL
NL <-> LFL
... with only an apologia in various parentheses and footnotes.
Those are insufficient to save programmers who expect to rely
on consistency between OSes.
-- gil
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