Re: Re: "What not to do" file

Hutber's Law: Improvement means deterioration!  :-)

Ain't the digital world wonderful?

Joseph Harris

On 04/04/2013 02:00, Chris Smith wrote:
>
> It's will look fine in an editor that understands Unix style newlines.
>
> However, the standard text editor on Windows is Notepad, which will not
> acknowledge the standalone LF (0x0A). As a result, it displays as one
> continuous line with no breaks, typically wrapping at the window edge. It
> would typically end up being about six lines long. Further muddling the
> view is that words normally separated by a newline end up not separated at
> all, but instead run together into strange amalgams of words and symbols.
>
> Should you happen to have word wrap turned off on Notepad, it will display
> as one line that is about 780 characters long.
>
> So, different systems/programs -- one nice, one unreadable.
>
> The only standard program on all Windows systems that will correctly read
> this is Wordpad, but the default file associations will always use
> Notepad.
>
> Most email programs do understand the Unix newline, so the message will
> look fine for everyone when sent as an email.
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newline#Common_problems
>
> ... Chris
>



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