At the level of abstraction I would expect from a String object, the reverse of \r\n should be \n\r. Basically, you example is another encoding issue. I think s

At the level of abstraction I would expect from a String object, the reverse of \r\n should be \n\r. Basically, you example is another encoding issue. I think strings should be free from any encoding concerns. Those should be handled when parsing/serializing.