Talk:Newline
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"1958 version of ASCII"
This requires further explanation, because of an apparent contradiction with "1960 Originated what have become the ASCII and ISO character codes." on http://www.unt.edu/isrc/Faculty/FacultyFellows/bemer.htm, and with the material on http://www.bobbemer.com. Also, http://homepages.cwi.nl/~dik/english/codes/stand.html says that the first standardised version dates from 1963.
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AIX
AIX is a Unix variant after all. Does it really follow OS/360?? Yaron 21:47, Aug 2, 2004 (UTC)
Unclear text
While doing a thorough copyedit of this article, I marked a few places where the text was unclear to me with HTML comments. Please see the page source. - dcljr 08:10, 17 Sep 2004 (UTC)
- You write "what is
X'15'??" I believe it's simply what a C programmer would call0x15-- it's a convention for hexadecimal I've seen in a few places. (Given that it appears in the EBCDIC section, perhaps it's an IBM-specific notation?) JTN 20:47, 2004 Oct 4 (UTC)
Solutions
Would be nice if this article included or linked to methods for converting the various formats since this is still occasionally problematic. I doubt my long-standing method of running a sed command from vi involving CTRL-V CTRL-M is optimal... --16:13, 17 May 2005 (UTC)
Merge?
This has been a problem for some time, and its only getting worse. The articles Line feed, CRLF, Carriage Return, and Newline all contain pretty much the same information, just phrased differently -- I propose we merge and redirect all other articles to this one, as it is the most complete and has a platform-neutral title. Comments? 63.188.144.35 19:16, 11 Jun 2005 (UTC)
- I'm not entirely convinced that line feed and carriage return shouldn't retain their own articles, as their distinct semantics don't quite sit right under newline. I agree that all the stuff about line-ending conventions, including the whole of CRLF, should come to newline, though, with prominent pointers from the individual articles. -- JTN 22:48, 2005 Jun 11 (UTC)
- I agree. It was just bad to begin with these separate articles for very closely related topics. Today, line feed and carriage return simply denotes a newline, and historical backgrounds can be easily put in each corresponding section. -- Taku 22:53, Jun 11, 2005 (UTC)
Well, it seems there's consensus for CRLF at the very least, so I'll go ahead and merge it in. As for line feed and carriage return, I realize they have historical signifigance, but its not exactly a practical usage nowadays. I think the historical implications of the terms can be best described in the Typewriter article; it already explains that the terms have been adopted amongst computer users. 63.188.168.95 17:48, 12 Jun 2005 (UTC)