The new-line may be thought of a some char and it has the value of '\n'. C11 5.2.1. This C new-line comes up in 3 places: C source code, as a single char and as an end-of-line in file I/O when in text mode. Many compilers will treat source text as ASCII. In that case, codes 10, sometimes 13, and sometimes paired 13,10 as new-line for source code. More @Wikipedia
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