[Newbies] Display artifacts in comments/desc.

Bert Freudenberg bert at freudenbergs.de
Tue May 8 12:07:33 UTC 2007


On May 8, 2007, at 2:34 , subbukk wrote:

> m curious about how these CRLFs got into the chunks in the first  
> place?

By people and software who think changing and even adding some bytes  
in a file is a jolly good idea.

Traditionally, only CR was used. All was fine. Then some people  
insisted on storing fileouts the "right way" with platform-dependent  
line endings by using CrLfStream (or whatever it was named). Or ftp  
tools tried to be "helpful" by converting CRs to CRLFs in fileouts,  
at least on on one particular platform that Squeak happens to run on.  
Anyway, when people filed these in, the bad characters went unnoticed  
because LF was shown as a zero-width (hence invisible) character.  
Only now with the fixed fonts these show up.

- Bert -





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