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curl / curl-for-win

Reproducible curl binaries for Linux, macOS and Windows
https://curl.se/windows/
MIT License
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Text files are not viewable in notepad #42

Closed jay closed 1 year ago

jay commented 1 year ago

I downloaded curl-7.87.0_1-win64-mingw.zip and the text files have LF instead of CRLF line endings and are not viewable in notepad. Here's a screenshot from a Windows 7 VM. (ignore the chinese text it's for a bug where I needed to switch locale)

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vszakats commented 1 year ago

Windows 10 is supposed to be supporting LF EOLs, according to this: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/commandline/extended-eol-in-notepad/

Windows 7 is not supported anymore by MS. Adding these two, I made the decision that it's not worth to identify and convert everything to CRLF for the sake of old Windows systems. So far nobody complained. I think it's also a reasonable workaround to change the default text viewer to an alternative that copes with LF EOLs. Overall, I prefer not altering original/input files, unless absolutely unavoidable.