[X-Unix] Why didn't Apple change the line break ?

[Alexandre Quessy]

Hello all,

I am a web developer, and I am having problems with charcter encoding, 
and especially line breaks on Mac OS X. I wonder why Apple didn't 
change the line break to the UNIX standard instead of keeping the same 
old one. Anyone have an idea ?

Character encodings are common and universal (ISO-8859-1 and UTF-8, 
mainly for me) but line break aren't. Why not switch ?

Alexandre Quessy
Montréal, Québec, Canada