On Tue, Feb 09, 2021 at 09:11:02PM +0200, Eli Zaretskii wrote: > > 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...
Yes, on Posix platforms. texi2any on MS-Windows should process the line ends properly. I expect that this happens already.
