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> There is no such character as NL,

There is, copying from a helpful comment above:

> The Unicode standard does call it NL along with LF.

    000A  <control>
      = LINE FEED (LF)
      = new line (NL)
      = end of line (EOL)
Source: https://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U0000.pdf

And things don't work fine, there are many issues with this historical baggage



I agree that there are issues. Making radical changes to legacy behavior will cause more.




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