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What's your favorite newline character sequence for ASCII?
LF or \n (UNIX, etc.) 83%  83%  [ 5 ]
CR+LF or \r\n (MS-DOS, Windows, etc.) 17%  17%  [ 1 ]
CR or \r (Mac OS Classic) 0%  0%  [ 0 ]
Total votes : 6

NeantHumain
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27 May 2012, 4:30 pm

See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newline. Even simple ASCII text files are subject to differences across systems. Besides the character sequence marking new lines in a text file, big-endian versus little-endian plays a role.



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27 May 2012, 5:01 pm

Actually, endianness plays no role in ASCII text files as every character is just a single-byte. Endianness is only a concern with multi-byte character encodings.



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27 May 2012, 11:02 pm

I mostly use Windows but I much prefer a single LF for newlines in text files.