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Comment by csb6

1 year ago

Yeah it doesn’t make much sense. In addition to being the default line ending on Windows, \r\n is part of the syntax of many text-based protocols (e.g. SMTP and IMAP) that support UTF-8, so clients/servers of all these protocols would be broken.

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