Re: misc/52989: [misc] use standard names for ascii table

[Eitan Adler <lists%eitanadler.com@localhost>]

On 7 February 2018 at 18:00, Paul Goyette <paul%whooppee.com@localhost> wrote:
> The following reply was made to PR misc/52989; it has been noted by GNATS.
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> From: Paul Goyette <paul%whooppee.com@localhost>
> To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
> Cc: misc-bug-people%netbsd.org@localhost, gnats-admin%netbsd.org@localhost, netbsd-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost
> Subject: Re: misc/52989: [misc] use standard names for ascii table
> Date: Thu, 8 Feb 2018 09:58:11 +0800 (+08)
>
>  Do you have a definitive/authoritative reference that the ASCII name for
>  012 is "cr" (carriage return) vs "nl (newline)?  I find conflicting
>  references, but nothing authoritative.  (wikipedia comes close, and does
>  agree with you.)

https://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U0000.pdf additionally uses CR
instead of NL. I can't find a source for ascii now, but do recall
seeing such in the past.




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Eitan Adler