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Expand Up @@ -16646,7 +16646,7 @@ <h1>Line Terminators</h1>
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</table>
</emu-table>
<p>Only the Unicode code points in <emu-xref href="#table-line-terminator-code-points"></emu-xref> are treated as line terminators. Other new line or line breaking Unicode code points are not treated as line terminators but are treated as white space if they meet the requirements listed in <emu-xref href="#table-white-space-code-points"></emu-xref>. The sequence &lt;CR>&lt;LF> is commonly used as a line terminator. It should be considered a single |SourceCharacter| for the purpose of reporting line numbers.</p>
<p>Only the Unicode code points in <emu-xref href="#table-line-terminator-code-points"></emu-xref> are treated as line terminators. Other new line or line breaking Unicode code points are not treated as line terminators but are treated as white space if they meet the requirements listed in <emu-xref href="#table-white-space-code-points"></emu-xref>.</p>
<h2>Syntax</h2>
<emu-grammar type="definition">
LineTerminator ::
Expand All @@ -16662,6 +16662,9 @@ <h2>Syntax</h2>
&lt;PS&gt;
&lt;CR&gt; &lt;LF&gt;
</emu-grammar>
<emu-note>
<p>The production <emu-grammar>LineTerminatorSequence :: &lt;CR&gt; &lt;LF&gt;</emu-grammar> matches a sequence of code points that should collectively operate as a single line terminator, such as when reporting line numbers in diagnostics.</p>
</emu-note>
</emu-clause>

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