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8355 :: WriteLine end the line by \n Why not by \p (platform specific)

• FabienPRI (orginal) [2021-08-23T12:07:25+02:00] view original

  Hi all,

  Not sure to be right but it seems that on Windows WriteLine end line by a n, which is not aligned with platform convention.

  May be it should be better to end by p which is platform specific, cn on Windows.

  May be I missed something and it is not the good function to write lines in a text file.

  Regards, Fabien

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• Araq (orginal) [2021-08-23T17:12:54+02:00] view original

  This came up quite a bit when we introduced \\p and IMO defaulting to \\n (LF) is usually most convenient, even on Windows machines: All the tools understand LF perfectly fine these days and copying files over to Macs/Linux then does not cause incompatibilities.

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• FabienPRI (orginal) [2021-08-24T17:04:25+02:00] view original

  It is your opinion, but it could be understand as I don't care of Windows users (I stay polite). IMHO not a good message for a language that aims to be multi OS friendly. And there are a lot of (maybe bad) tools remaining used in the huge liste of Dos / Windows softwares still used by companies that do this assomption of end line. This is reality.

  I've handled this by hand with my own use of WriteLine. Several details like this could discourage Windows users which is quite sad.

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• Araq (orginal) [2021-08-25T10:03:48+02:00] view original

  I use Windows myself all the time... "I don't care about Windows users" could not be farther from the truth.

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