3.9a unprintable characters in some methods?

Wilkes Joiner wilkesjoiner at gmail.com
Sun Jun 4 15:22:01 UTC 2006


This happens when displaying any linefeed.  Is this the behavior we
want for linefeeds, or should we display \n, \r, and \r\n the same
way?

On 5/31/06, David T. Lewis <lewis at mail.msen.com> wrote:
> On Wed, May 31, 2006 at 09:57:13AM -0400, Ron Teitelbaum wrote:
> >
> > I was wondering why some methods now in 3.9a have an unprintable character
> > down the left column.
> >
> > This doesn't appear in all methods just some.  Do they have some
> > significance that I'm missing?  Is this a bug?
>
> It's a minor bug, and it's only visible to you now because someone
> recently added an enhancement to make the unprintable characters
> visible, which is a good thing.
>
> All you are seeing is some <cr><lf> sequences that crept into the
> source via some methods that no doubt were filed in from a change
> set file with <cr><lf> terminators (maybe it came from a Windows
> machine or got the way due to some zip program trying to be helpful).
>
> The source should be cleaned up, and it's probably worth entering
> the issue on Mantis to keep track of it.
>
> Dave
>
>
>



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