Re: Multiple lines in statusbar

[Egon Andersen <post talura dk>]

stian nixia no wrote:
> > And in fact if you open a file in text-mode on Windows, \n is converted
> > to CR+LF - that is one of the ideas behind using "\n" and text-mode.
> >
> > So I can't really see why "\n" should not be correct when I write a
> > string to the statusbar, just as well as it works correct when it is a
> > label.
> >
> > And it is a disaster for portability, if "\n" should be "\r\n" on
> > Windows and even something else on Mac.
>
>
> Did you test it, just to sort out if the issue is the \n not automatically
> being translated into \r\n or not.

I've just tried to insert "\r\n" - now I see two squares (fallback 
characters).
So it seems that statusbar on Windows has some problems handling both 
"\r" and "\n"!

Best regards
Egon Andersen