Subj : MsgBase.save_msg() and line endings
To : Nightfox
From : Digital Man
Date : Mon Jan 21 2013 11:53 pm
Re: MsgBase.save_msg() and line endings
By: Nightfox to Digital Man on Sun Jan 20 2013 09:35 pm
> Hi DM -
>
> When using MsgBase's save_msg() function, does it matter what newline
> character(s) are used at the end of the lines? If all the lines end with
> \r\n, will the message be posted with the proper newlines regardless of
> what platform the script/Synchronet is running in?
SMB has required lines be termined with "\r\n" since it's inception. One recent
change to this is that so-called "soft carriage-returns" are now encoded as
" \n". This is because Synchronet (as of v3.15) now rd-word-wraps messages when
displaying via the Terminal Server (e.g. ANSI over Telnet) and we needed a
distinction between auto-wrapped lines (via an editor's word-wrapping) and a
so-called "hard CR" (when the author hit ENTER). See docs/WRAP.txt or ask Deuce
for more details.
> Also, does Synchronet provide a JavaScript variable/property anywhere that
> contains the proper newline character(s) for the current platform? Or does
> it even matter?
The new-line encoding in SMB is not specific to the "current platform" or
client.
digital man
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