The text files on different platforms use different character encodings and end-of-line characters by default. Although most operating systems can handle a wide variety of encodings, each system has a default (often determined by language or localization settings) that will be used if none is specified. Text files on different platforms also use different character codes for end-of-line characters.
The defaults for English versions of major operating systems are shown here:
| OS | Default | Default new line |
| Windows | cp1252 | Carriage return + line feed (\r\n) |
| Linux (most modern distributions) | UTF-8 | Line feed (\n) |
| macOS | US-ASCII | Line feed (\n) |
Most of the time, these differences do not represent a problem, ...
