- From: Malcolm Rowe <malcolm-what@farside.org.uk>
- Date: Wed, 30 Jun 2004 14:20:06 +0100
Ian Hickson writes: >> How a new line will be represented ? >> On Mac new line = \r => One character, >> On Unix/Linux new line = \n => One character; >> On Windows new line = \r\n => Two characters. > Good point. I've added text to the spec saying that a newline should > always be submitted as a single U+000A character (what you call \n). > (Chosen because that is the official newline character in CSS too.) What do existing implementations do? (I assume we're talking about hard linebreaks in <TEXTAREA> elements, btw). Much as I hate it, CRLF would be more typical, given that SMTP and HTTP both mandate CRLF in parts. But I think that you need to answer the first question first. Regards, Malcolm
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