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netsharcyesterday at 10:19 AM3 repliesview on HN

Author seems to think Unix uses a character called "NL" instead of "LF"...


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debugnikyesterday at 10:50 AM

Unicode labels U+000A as all of "LINE FEED (LF)", "new line (NL)" and "end of line (EOL)". I'm guessing different names were imported from slightly different character sets, although I understand the all-uppercase name to be the main/official one.

https://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U0000.pdf

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matsemannyesterday at 10:51 AM

NL, or New Line, is a character in some character sets, like old mainframe computers. No need to be snarky just because he mistyped or uses a different name for something.

db_adminyesterday at 10:47 AM

I am more surprised by the description of “rock döts”. A Norwegian certainly knows that ASCII is not enough for all our alphabetical needs.

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