On Wed, 28 Jul 2021 12:29:22 +0000, Seymour J Metz wrote:
>    ...
>For historical reasons, Unix misused the Line Feed (LF) character as a logical 
>new line ...
>
For similar bad historical reasons, z/OS iconv (and UNICODE services generally?)
mistranslates ASCII* LF<->NL EBCDIC, causing compatibility problems.

>Does anybody know whether Unix System Services uses LF or NEL as a logical new 
>line for files tagged as UTF-8?
>
I'd expect the answer to be the same as for files taggeed ISO-8859-x: UNIX or 
DOS-think.

Should 819 differ from 1252 in that respect?

-- gil

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