My understanding was this would terminate the record unless enclosed by “encapsulators”, whereupon indeed it would be interpreted as literal text. Though defin

My understanding was this would terminate the record unless enclosed by “encapsulators”, whereupon indeed it would be interpreted as literal text. Though defined as CRLF in the RFC, presumably for interoperability, you are typically free to define alternative record separators, as well as field separators and encapsulators, and most modern implementations would be smart enough to work with this.