All Unicode characters are 16 bits wide (well, not strictly true...), but have a large variety of encodings. In UTF-8, for instance, the ASCII characters are encoded exactly the same way, so newline is, er, \n. UTF-7 is just plain silly, and UTF-16 is 16-bits wide, so newline would be \0\n.

(Note that the first 256 characters of Unicode are the ISO-8859-1, character set, better known as Latin-1. The first 128 are ASCII)

There again, in NT, text files are plain 8-bit ASCII (with the top-bit set characters being some godawful M$ encoding), so \r\n should indeed do the trick, unless you really are using some form of Unicode editor & file format. (Perl was written for Unix, where newline is just \n, but NT considers newline to be \r\n. Actually, only notepad seems to think that these days...)

Andrew.

In reply to Re: newline for Unicode? by ahunter
in thread newline for Unicode? by linuser2

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