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 I've never heard of next line U+0085, but judging by the hex code, that's not in ASCII? :psyduck:

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@vaporeon_ apparently its from a particular encoding IBM used in the 60s that Unicode subsumed a few characters from

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