Updates:
Owner: pekka.klarck
Comment #3 on issue 510 by pekka.klarck: Output files use Unix line endings
on Windows
http://code.google.com/p/robotframework/issues/detail?id=510
This has now been fixed and acceptance tested.
While looking at this I learned something new about how Python handles
lines separators:
1) If file is opened in text mode ('w', 'r' or 'a') on Windows, '\n' is
automatically translated to '\r\n' when writing and '\r\n' to '\n' when
reading. No translation is done on other platforms.
2) If file is opened in binary mode ('wb', 'rb' or 'ab'), no translation is
done on any platform.
3) codecs.open forces binary mode to prevent possible data corruption. That
is highly annoying and also stupid because text mode would be safe with
most encodings (and is safe with UTF-8)). This annoyance means that
all '\n' characters must be replaced with os.linesep when reading/writing.
That is often more work than using normal open and encoding/decoding
content to UTF-8 when writing/reading.
