Re: Line termination philosophy [Re: I-D ACTION:draft-ietf-secsh-publickeyfile-08.txt]

[markus%gyger.org@localhost (Markus Gyger)]

Jeffrey Hutzelman writes:
> If it's going to be text-based, then we should REQUIRE that lines 
> be separated by the Internet-standard line terminator, which is CRLF.  We 
> should also RECOMMEND that implemenations be able to handle CR-only and 
> LF-only line terminators, because doing so will likely increase 
> interoperability.

Unicode has also some recommendations in the 4.0
book chapter 5 ("5.8 Newline Guidelines" pg 116):
http://unicode.org/versions/Unicode4.0.0/ch05.pdf


Markus