On 2009-09-07 17:08:58 -0400, "Nick Sabalausky" <[email protected]> said:
For our resident Mac users: I know (or at least have heard) that Mac's EOLs are traditionally '\r'. But, mac directory separators are traditionally ':' and I know that these days macs can, and often do, use '/' just fine instead. So...are '\r' line endings still in use and worth supporting, or have they pretty much disappeared in favor of '\n'? (I'm mainly wondering for code, but also curious about other text too).
You can still sometime encounter those from some Carbon-based applications ported from Mac OS 9 (both the newlines and the colon as a directory separator). Gecko on a Mac used to use \r when copy-pasting text from a webpage not so long ago. But generally-speaking, it's on the way out.
Whether it's "worth supporting" and to what degree probably depends on what you do. I'd say it's still generally worth supporting \r so you can open old text files from a Mac (inlcuding source code). It also need to be supported in HTML and XML files (per specification) and a few other places.
-- Michel Fortin [email protected] http://michelf.com/
