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Link: http://www.fltk.org/str.php?L2651
Version: 1.3-current
Fix Version: 1.3.0


AFAIK the problem stems from Telex/teletype machines that required one
command to return the carriage to the beginning of the paper, and a second
command to roll the roller and advance the paper. CP/M and all decendents
(MS-DOS, SMWindows) use CR/LF. Unix uses CR, MacOS used LF until OS 9, and
the BBC machine used LF/CR.

There are a number of remnants for teletype times: Unix man pages still
sometimes use B<bacK>B<bacK>B<bacK>B to create a boldface character. Even
in Unicode/UTF-8 we find a<BS>' to create foreign characters to this day,
even though UNicode contains the accented "a".

Nevertheless, I hope the person responsible is chained in hell to the guy
responsible for the telephone numeric keypad being upside down to the
numeric pad on keyboard!

As for the solution, tagging configh.in as binary should do the job,
right?


Link: http://www.fltk.org/str.php?L2651
Version: 1.3-current
Fix Version: 1.3.0

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