I agree that NotePad ought to be able to display a pure LF file
correctly. Word and WordPad do. However they do translate the LFs to
CRLFs on saving, which limits their interoperability with Unix. It would
be fairly easy to have an option to write LF files, if there's
sufficient interest.
Murray
-----Original Message-----
From: Michael (michka) Kaplan [mailto:michka@trigeminal.com]
Sent: Thursday, February 21, 2002 8:40 AM
To: Lars Kristan; 'David Hopwood'; unicode@unicode.org
Subject: Re: CRLF vs. LF (was Re: Unicode and end users)
Importance: Low
From: "Lars Kristan" <lars.kristan@hermes.si>
> A - When writing, no CR characters will be written (unless read from a
> file). Many programs (like notepad) will not display such files
> correctly. It is a good question whether this is my problem or
> notepad's.
Yours -- since you are feeding it files that it does not accept the
format of? Obviously notepad is not a tool for you -- try IE. :-)
> B - When reading, I will get CR characters which are not handled
> anywhere
in
> my current code. Of course this only happens when reading files that
> were written 'the old way'.
Well, again that would be you.
The problem here is that you are looking at UNIX defaults and seeing how
poorly Windows handles them -- but that is why Windows is not UNIX. Each
has its own defaults, and only the people who wish to straddle the two
worlds will hit problems here....
MichKa
Michael Kaplan
Trigeminal Software, Inc. -- http://www.trigeminal.com/
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