Jill Ramonsky <Jill dot Ramonsky at Aculab dot com> wrote: > Are the LS and PS characters actually used in real plain-text > documents? > > I ask because plain text documents are created by text editors. The > text editor I happen to use is TextPad (there are hundreds of others, > and everyone has their favorite). It can save in UTF-8, and so on. But > it always saves documents with CRLF separating the lines. (It's a > Windows system).
SC UniPad <http://www.unipad.org> can save any type of Unicode file (UTF-7/8/16/32, SCSU, or ASCII with \uXXXX escapes) with any type of line separator (CR and/or LF, or LS). The tricky part is that ASCII transparency is really the whole reason for UTF-8 to exist, and if you use LS instead of CR/LF, you don't really have ASCII transparency any more. Another point is that the ONE character LS actually uses more bytes in UTF-8 than the TWO characters CR and LF. I don't know if this fact actually contributes to the low use of LS in the real world, but it probably doesn't help. -Doug Ewell Fullerton, California http://users.adelphia.net/~dewell/
