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#215 - Newlines without Unicode - yarn - Mills -- We discussed the idea of changing the way we handle Newlines in Twts once upon a time, but nobody adopted it, we didn't amend the spec and really we just kept the existing spec as-is using the
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\2028 and simpler search/replace in place. Did we want to revisit this again in a potential Twtxt v2 spec rewrite, or are we happy with how this works? 🤔 cc @movq @lyse @tkanos (please add other client authors to this thread) #Twtxt #Spec #Multiline
It also says “A specific ordering of the statuses is not mandatory,” implying that the order of the lines in the file is irrelevant. If newlines are separate posts with the same timestamp, the original line order becomes very relevant. I can see how a client (that doesn’t support this newline syntax) might display posts with the same timestamp in the wrong order because of this.