Reading a file in text mode ignores all carriage return control characters. Stray carriage returns are ignored as well. I do not think Macintosh text files should be allowed on the Web without encoding. Chris
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Michel Fortin Sent: Friday, June 08, 2007 3:19 AM To: WHATWG List Subject: Re: [whatwg] CR "entities" and LFCR Le 2007-06-07 à 17:12, Michael A. Puls II a écrit : > Not sure if it'll help, but whenever I do newline normalization to > LF, I: > > Convert all CR + LF pairs to LF. > Then, I convert any CRs left over to LF. > > Examples: > > LF + CR + LF + CR -> LF + LF + LF. > > CR + CR + LF -> LF + LF. I think that's the standard way of doing it. Quoting Markdown source code, and some Perl code found on Wikipedia [1]: s/(\r\n|\n|\r)/\n/g it does exactly that. [1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newline#Conversion_utilities Windows use CR+LF, UNIX uses LF, legacy Mac applications still use CR; but I'm not aware of any system using LF+CR (and there is none on Wikipedia) and I don't think it's useful to give a meaning to it. Michel Fortin [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.michelf.com/
