On Fri, 09 Nov 2012 12:34:27 +0100, Hans Mulder wrote: > On 7/11/12 01:13:47, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
>> Hit the J key, and the event includes character "j". Hit Shift-J, and >> character "J" is sent. Hit Ctrl-J, and the character sent is the ASCII >> control character ^J, or newline. (Technically, the name for ASCII 10 >> is "linefeed" rather than "newline".) > > Actually, the correct name for this character is OS-dependant: The ASCII > standard prescribes that if an OS chooses to use a single character as > its line terminator, then it must be this one, and one should call it > "newline". Otherwise, it's name is "linefeed". So, the correct name is > "newline" on Posix system, but "linefeed" on Windows. I find that hard to believe. Do you have a source for this claim? The ASCII standard has nothing to do with operating systems. It is a character encoding system, whether you are using computers or notches carved into pieces of wood, you can encode characters to values using ASCII. ASCII is operating system agnostic. Every source I have found describing the ASCII standard, and its equivalents from other standards bodies (e.g. ISO/IEC 646, EMCA 6) either directly refer to chr 10 as LF/Linefeed or refer back to the C0 control codes, which refers to it as LF/Linefeed. For example: http://www.ecma-international.org/publications/files/ECMA-ST/Ecma-006.pdf See also: http://www.terena.org/activities/multiling/euroml/section04.html which clearly shows char 10 as LF in all the given ISO 646 variants. If you have a source for this claim, I would like to see it, otherwise I will stand by my claim that the standard name for ASCII char 10 is "linefeed". -- Steven -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
