It also goes a bit more than that, for optimal UTF8 search you want the ASCII separators. It's always easier to search for a single byte than two or more bytes

It also goes a bit more than that, for optimal UTF8 search you want the ASCII separators. It's always easier to search for a single byte than two or more bytes of special pattern. That said, I do agree we should abolish CRLF. And replace it with LF.