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

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

The following reply was made to PR misc/52989; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Eitan Adler <lists%eitanadler.com@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost
Cc: pgoyette%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: Wed, 7 Feb 2018 18:03:04 -0800

 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.
 >
 > 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