Re: RFC 69 (v2) Standardize input record separator (for

[email protected] (John Porter) Thu, 10 Aug 2000 13:52:33 -0400

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N. Hao Ching <[email protected]>:
> 
> The default input record separator is not safe for all input files
> on all platforms.  There should also be support for Unicode line
> separator (U+2028) and paragraph separator (U+2029).

I disagree.  Perl should provide the greatest ease for the greatest
number of people; and the majority of people reading text files are
reading platform-native text files. 

-- 
John Porter