Escape codes are not 100% portable

[ketmar via Digitalmars-d]

On Thu, 02 Apr 2015 12:57:11 +0000, Jens Bauer wrote:

>> Which compilers?
> 
> MrCpp, MrC, MPWC, MPWCpp and CodeWarrior.
> 
> These compilers must respect the platform's definition of \n = newline
> and \r = carriage return.
> Because the platform defines newline = 13, then \n must have the value
> 13.

so that platform is not ASCII-compatible, and text files must be 
converted between platform encoding and ASCII.

> As the hex values will not change
yet they will be invalid on that platform. it's not DMD duty to recode 
files from one encoding to another.

> Also ... some compilers might expand \n to a two-byte value 0x0d0a
then they are broken beyond any repair, and should be either fixed or 
avoided.
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