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## Characters and lines
-The input is a sequence of zero or more [lines](#line).
-
-A [line](@line)
-is a sequence of zero or more [characters](#character) followed by a
-[line ending](#line-ending) or by the end of file.
+Any sequence of [characters](#character) is a valid CommonMark
+document.
A [character](@character) is a unicode code point.
This spec does not specify an encoding; it thinks of lines as composed
of characters rather than bytes. A conforming parser may be limited
to a certain encoding.
+A [line](@line) is a sequence of zero or more [characters](#character)
+followed by a [line ending](#line-ending) or by the end of file.
+
A [line ending](@line-ending) is, depending on the platform, a
newline (`U+000A`), carriage return (`U+000D`), or
carriage return + newline.