Re: Mac vs unix Carriage returns on a text file format
Re: Mac vs unix Carriage returns on a text file format
- Subject: Re: Mac vs unix Carriage returns on a text file format
- From: Doug McNutt <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 3 Apr 2005 20:56:30 -0600
>The two other unicode line endings, are you talking about U+2028 (line separator) and U+2029 (paragraph separator)?
>
>Do you have any idea why applescript treats these two line endings differently?
<pureguess>
There is older lore about soft and hard returns which I think came about with 5 inch floppies and real typewriters which didn't do word wrapping very well.
Teletypewriters interpreted a line feed as solely vertical motion and a return as solely horizontal. One needed both to get the effect of the return bar of a typewriter. (One also needed nulls for timing considerations and you could overwrite a line using a return only.)
So. . .U+2028 (line separator) makes a new line that is not a new paragraph.
</pureguess>
AppleScript may have it right.
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