# Suggestion: Support universal newlines and make it default for Text IO

**URL:** <https://discourse.julialang.org/t/suggestion-support-universal-newlines-and-make-it-default-for-text-io/1222>\
**Category:** Internals & Design\
**Created:** [December 30, 2016, 10:26pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/suggestion-support-universal-newlines-and-make-it-default-for-text-io/1222 "2016-12-30T22:26:11Z")\
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**Author:** ![mpastell](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/mpastell/32/350_2.png) [@mpastell](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/mpastell)\
**Post date:** [December 30, 2016, 10:26pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/suggestion-support-universal-newlines-and-make-it-default-for-text-io/1222/1 "2016-12-30T22:26:11Z")

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Hi,  
I just opened an issue on Github suggesting support for Python style for universal newlines in Julia and realized maybe I should have posted here first.

Anyway here is a link to the suggestion [https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/issues/19785](https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/issues/19785) . I’m interested in hearing what other Julia users think about it.