> From: Gavin Smith <gavinsmith0...@gmail.com> > Date: Tue, 9 Feb 2021 18:39:09 +0000 > > > Should we try to modify the parsers to handle dos eol on Unix like > > platforms? In that case I could have a go at the perl parser maybe this > > weekend. > > My inclination is towards not handling them, as it can't be much of a > real problem, not having come up until now. If people have files with > MS-DOS style line endings it would be better if they could convert > them, rather than trying to deal with this in the program. They could > work out and fix the reason why they had these line endings in the > first place, avoiding problems with other programs too. I think it's > a complication that we can avoid dealing with.
You mean, on Posix platforms, right? Because on MS-Windows text files with CRLF EOL format are normal, and we cannot possibly unsupport them... (Apologies if I'm barking up the wrong tree: I'm not sure I understand what exactly are you discussing.)
