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Proposed minor spec changes, for comment.

solderpunk solderpunk at SDF.ORG

Thu May 21 22:00:28 BST 2020

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On Thu, May 21, 2020 at 08:56:57PM +0000, jan6 at tilde.ninja wrote:

May 21, 2020 11:47 PM, "solderpunk" <solderpunk at sdf.org> wrote:
We basically need to choose between forcing server authors to normalise
all endings to CRLF or forcing client authors to recgonise LF (even
though it'll probably never be seen in the wild).
Neither really thrill me, but, well, here we are.
"it'll probably never be seen in the wild" why?
just LF is the standard linux line ending, and if it's allowed, I'm fairly certain there will be several servers which would serve the files as-is, and given they'd likely be on some sort of unix machine, likely be ending with LF
CR on the other hand, is very unlikely to be found in the wild, since it's used by any living OS, afaik, and also should, in theory, just move cursor to the start of line, instead of putting a newline, at least on linux terminals... which would overwrite the line...

Argh, yep, sorry. Exchange *all* instances of lone CR and lone LF inmy entire last email, I mixed them up.

Cheers,Poldersunk