I knew about that Mac OS has ever used '\r' character to represent new line, while '\n' later. I want to know the eact time that this change happened, is there a official note? I was trying to search that note on Google, while I still couldn't find that. Thanks in advance.
AFAIR the change happened after OS X was released.
I edit almost all text files that need no extra formatting in BBEdit (screenshot below). In the recent past I took care to use Unix (LF), and Windows (CRLF) only if that document was used at work with Windows XP-7-10. But current Windows 10 Notepad and WordPad seem to use all variations including Legacy Mac (CR) OK.
Unicode (UTF-8) etc might still be a headache.
Classic macOS used a carriage return and OS X/macOS has always used a newline because of its BSD UNIX heritage. Even NeXTStep/OpenStep used newlines because it was based on 4.2 BSD and the Mach kernel.
Any text file coming from MS Windows has a carriage-return/linefeed pair for line endings and that is incompatible with macOS until these documents are stripped of that carriage-return.
usually one use both
\r is carriage return
\n is newline
string - What is the difference between \r\n, \r, and \n? - Stack Overflow
Thanks for reply. While my question is when did macOS use "\n" to represent new line, right before this macOS has ever used "\r" to represent new line.
Was the switch between OS 9 and OS X (MacOS)? If so, they coexisted for a while i think.
When exactly did Mac OS switch character for new line from '\r' to '\n' ?
