From: Hrvoje Niksic <hniksic@srce.hr>
Subject: Re: Feature wish: replace CR with LF
Date: 26 Oct 1998 14:03:39 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <kigvhl7wk44.fsf@jagor.srce.hr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Kai Grossjohann's message of "26 Oct 1998 10:24:33 +0100"
Kai Grossjohann <Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE> writes:
> Some messages have broken Macintosh newlines (i.e. ^M). WIBNI there
> was a function similar to article-remove-cr which replaced ^M with
> ^J instead of deleting them?
I agree. CR should be deleted only if it is followed by LF;
otherwise, it should be turned into LF itself. The conversion
algorithm is still relatively simple:
Step 1: CRLF -> LF
Step 2: CR -> LF
--
Hrvoje Niksic <hniksic@srce.hr> | Student at FER Zagreb, Croatia
--------------------------------+--------------------------------
We must all confront and destroy our own inner geek.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~1998-10-26 13:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1998-10-26 9:24 Kai Grossjohann
1998-10-26 13:03 ` Hrvoje Niksic [this message]
1998-10-26 21:03 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
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