[openpgp] Re: ecosystem split: text-mode signatures over C R-only line endings

On Oct 22, 2025 at 8:49:20 AM, Daniel Kahn Gillmor <[email protected]>
wrote:

> On Wed 2025-10-15 17:28:38 -0400, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote:
>
> So i think the following question is what we need to answer:
>
>
>  - is `\r` (CR) on its own a "line-ending" that needs to be converted to
>
>    CRLF when signing in text mode?
>
>
> It also occurs to me that line-ending normalization might behave
> differently with the same source code on different systems, depending on
> how normalization is done.
>

Yeah, XML has been doing this since 1998 - each of \n, \r, \r\n, and \n\r
MUST be normalized by the parser into a single \n. It’s worked well. -T

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