Re: File encoding for files ported between Mac and Windows?
Re: File encoding for files ported between Mac and Windows?
- Subject: Re: File encoding for files ported between Mac and Windows?
- From: "Sean McBride" <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 5 Jan 2010 18:00:33 -0500
- Organization: Rogue Research Inc.
On 1/5/10 7:12 PM, Alastair Houghton said:
>Programmers' editors and compilers generally don't care whether there
>are CRs or not. Some of them might not like traditional Mac or Amiga
>text files (which just had CRs and no LFs), but those are rarely
>necessary anyway.
There's still lots of software that (lamely) does not deal well with
different line endings. Even with Xcode 3.2.1 FileMerge is unable to
diff two files with different line endings!
The (optional) feature of various SCMs to deal with line endings has
been quite helpful to me on several occasions.
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Rogue Research www.rogue-research.com
Mac Software Developer Montréal, Québec, Canada
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