[issue7643] What is a Unicode line break character?

[Marc-Andre Lemburg]

Marc-Andre Lemburg <mal at egenix.com> added the comment:

Florent Xicluna wrote:
> Backward compatibility concern:
>  * it adds VT u'\x0b' and FF u'\x0c' as line breaks.
> 
> The choice is either to preserve backward compatibility, or to comply with the specification (UAX #14).

I think we should correct this bug together with a clear warning in
the Misc/NEWS file.

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