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From: James Kuyper <jameskuyper@alumni.caltech.edu>
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Subject: Re: Simple string conversion from UCS2 to ISO8859-1
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On 2/21/25 23:29, Janis Papanagnou wrote:
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> BTW; curious about that [informal] part of the syntax description
>
> LF: <any sequence of a single ASCII 0A or 0D, or both>
>
> It looks like they accept not only LF, CR, CR-LF, but also LF-CR.
> Is the latter of any practical relevance?
According to <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newline#Representation>,
LF-CR is used by "Acorn BBC and RISC OS spooled text output". I presume
you would not consider that to be of any practical importance.