can anyone tell me what the difference between carriage return (U+000D), line feed (U+000A), and next line (U+0085) are

@wallhackio Well, carriage return moves the carriage of your typewriter or dot-matrix printer back to the beginning of the line, while line feed moves on the paper so that you get a new line

If you just do a carriage return without line-feed, you'll end up printing over text that's already there; if you do line-feed without carriage return, while you get an empty line, the carriage will be at the end of new line and not at the beginning...

@wallhackio Here's a short video that I found of some typing and then a carriage return, if that helps visualize it: youtube.com/watch?v=UxKqOdQx-9k

@wallhackio @vaporeon_ they write all their statuses on a typewriter and mail them to me internationally so i can insert them into the database directly

@monorail @wallhackio @vaporeon_ don't lie, there's no way they get through the mail that fast.

Clearly you just reach across the Atlantic Ocean to get them.

@wallhackio No, unfortunately :blobcatsadreach:

But I got to use a ASR-33 teletypewriter in the computer museum when I was there, some of the happiest days of my life :blobcatmeltcry:
I hope I can go visit again when I don't have to be busy with other things

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