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1. netsha+(OP)[view] [source] 2026-02-03 10:19:59
Author seems to think Unix uses a character called "NL" instead of "LF"...
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2. db_adm+W2[view] [source] 2026-02-03 10:47:05
>>netsha+(OP)
I am more surprised by the description of “rock döts”. A Norwegian certainly knows that ASCII is not enough for all our alphabetical needs.
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3. debugn+a3[view] [source] 2026-02-03 10:50:06
>>netsha+(OP)
Unicode labels U+000A as all of "LINE FEED (LF)", "new line (NL)" and "end of line (EOL)". I'm guessing different names were imported from slightly different character sets, although I understand the all-uppercase name to be the main/official one.

https://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U0000.pdf

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4. matsem+n3[view] [source] 2026-02-03 10:51:59
>>netsha+(OP)
NL, or New Line, is a character in some character sets, like old mainframe computers. No need to be snarky just because he mistyped or uses a different name for something.
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5. topaz0+fo[view] [source] [discussion] 2026-02-03 13:17:51
>>db_adm+W2
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metal_umlaut

The writer presumably knows that umlauts and other non-ascii characters are functional in many languages. "rock döts" is poking fun at the trend in a certain tranche of anglophone rock/metal to use them in a purely aesthetic way in band names etc.

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6. netsha+Dm1[view] [source] [discussion] 2026-02-03 17:48:27
>>debugn+a3
Oh okay... for a technical article, referrring to 0A with two different names within the same sentence of each other is not confusing at all... /S

Geezus...

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