Line Break - Line Feed

Unicode Version 18.0

Line Feed is a control character that forces a hard line break, moving the text cursor directly to the next line at the same horizontal position. In the context of line breaking behavior, it acts as a mandatory break opportunity, meaning text must wrap after this character, regardless of surrounding characters or language rules. Unlike soft break opportunities like spaces, Line Feed does not allow for conditional wrapping; it always terminates the current line. It is distinct from Carriage Return, which may imply a return to the start of the line, but Line Feed alone is the standard for line termination in many systems, particularly Unix-like environments. Its presence inherently marks a point where lines are split, and any adjacent characters are treated as part of separate lines for rendering and text flow.

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