The use of ASCII '\n' to move the the start of the next line in UNIXes is merely a historical accident. There were plenty of other operating systems, some of w

The use of ASCII '\n' to move the the start of the next line in UNIXes is merely a historical accident. There were plenty of other operating systems, some of which predate UNIX itself, which used other encodings: see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newline#Representations_in_different_character_encoding_specifications https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newline#Representations_in_dif...