[Python-3000] Lines breaking (original) (raw)

"Martin v. Löwis" martin at v.loewis.de
Tue May 29 07:24:14 CEST 2007

The change would extend the line breaking behavior to three other ASCII characters: NEL "Next Line" 85 VT "Vertical Tab" 0B FF "Form Feed" 0C

Of these, NEL is not an ASCII character, so Guido's "no change for ASCII-only text" requirement doesn't apply to text containing NEL.

Of course, it is not really necessary to change, but I think full conformance to the standard [1] could give Python better support of multilingual texts. However, full conformance would require a good amount of work. So, it is true that it is probably better to postpone it until someone complaint.

Can you please point to the chapter and verse where it says that VT must be considered? I only found mention of FF, in R4.

Regards, Martin

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