[Issue 1349] ^M pollution

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Mon Jul 23 12:56:19 PDT 2007


http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=1349





------- Comment #4 from thomas-dloop at kuehne.cn  2007-07-23 14:56 -------
(In reply to comment #3)
> Modern text processing software should accept the following as line 
terminations:
> 
> LF (unix)
> CR (mac)
> CRLF (windows, DEC)

> If you are using software that doesn't recognize common line terminations, 
that is a bug in that software, not the text file.

Correct. However the real issue are the Phobos and DMD-frontend sources shipped 
with GDC. They use a mix of different line endings within a single file. That 
kind of EOL mixing can cause serious trouble if the code is e.g. cut-n-pasted 
into another application.


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