Re: problem with system_eol_type

[Reiner Steib]

On Mon, Jul 31 2006, Kenichi Handa wrote:

> I've got several complaints about the change I made a few
> months ago regarding the handling of the default eol-type.
>
> Previously, when a coding system without explicit eol-type
> (e.g. iso-latin-1) was specified for encoding, Unix-like
> eol-type is selected on any platform.
>
> The change I made was to use an eol-type set to
> system_eol_type (CRLF on Windows, LF otherwise) in such a
> case.  To me, that change was just a bug fix.
>
> But, the bug-reports say that there are many codes that
> assumes the previous behaviour, and some of them now don't
> work well on Windows.

FWIW, two examples in Gnus where that doubled newlines appeared in
mail messages and NOV (overview) files weren't read/written correctly
anymore, see this discussion on the Gnus list:
<http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/63496/focus=63502>

Bye, Reiner.
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