\r\n is a standard though (in fact, it's arguably more of a standard than what Unix and C did), so you really can't just do something different and expect every

\r\n is a standard though (in fact, it's arguably more of a standard than what Unix and C did), so you really can't just do something different and expect everyone to follow. (For example, most text-based internet protocols such as HTTP use \r\n as a line separator/terminator, so refusing to put the \r will be incompatible for no reason.)