From: Hans Hagen via ntg-context <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
To: Max Chernoff via ntg-context <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Cc: Hans Hagen <j.hagen@freedom.nl>
Subject: Re: new hash for buffer (as file)
Date: Mon, 26 Sep 2022 10:47:58 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <d045f43f-98ea-9ebe-e415-5c39aff0308d@freedom.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <94fa5bd81dd51e448b7c1262e310e9a4a26f6abe.camel@telus.net>
On 9/26/2022 2:05 AM, Max Chernoff via ntg-context wrote:
>
> Hi Pablo,
>
>> But now I don’t understand is the following issue: if the saved file
>> contains "\r\n", why does basic Notepad the new lines?
>>
>> "\r\n" are the chars to get new lines in Windows. Or what am I missing here?
>
> I'm not too sure what you're asking here, but Notepad was somewhat-
> recently updated to handle both CRLF and LF line endings:
>
> https://devblogs.microsoft.com/commandline/extended-eol-in-notepad/
>
> But I do agree that the line ending handling seems a little odd. I find it
> surprising that the buffers internally use CR line endings since no systems
> in the past 20 years use that.
how about tex ...
\number\endlinechar
\number\numexpr`M-`A+1\relax % plain sets up `^^M
... you don't want to know how much hassle dealing with line endings in
tex is
> Also, you should probably check to make sure that the results of the
> file don't depend on the current code page on Windows. Try writing out a
> buffer from ConTeXt with the following contents:
>
> АБВГДЕЖЗИЙКЛМНОПРСТУФХЦЧШЩЪЫЬЭЮЯабвгдежзийклмнопрстуфхцчшщъыьэюя
>
> First, run "chcp 65001" before running "context" and record the size of the
> file written. Then, run "chcp 1251" and run "context" again. Hopefully the
> file size doesn't change; but if it does, then that means that the binary
> content of any file written will depend on the system's default code page,
> which would complicate making reproducible hashes.
if that were the case nothing would work .. so it's bytes in - bytes out
Hans
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-09-26 8:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-09-22 17:25 Pablo Rodriguez via ntg-context
2022-09-23 4:01 ` Max Chernoff via ntg-context
2022-09-23 15:06 ` Pablo Rodriguez via ntg-context
2022-09-25 17:59 ` Pablo Rodriguez via ntg-context
2022-09-26 0:05 ` Max Chernoff via ntg-context
2022-09-26 8:47 ` Hans Hagen via ntg-context [this message]
2022-09-26 23:01 ` Max Chernoff via ntg-context
2022-09-26 17:24 ` Pablo Rodriguez via ntg-context
2022-09-26 18:07 ` Hans Hagen via ntg-context
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