Re: GtkTextBuffer stripping carriage returns?

[Earnie Boyd <earnie users sourceforge net>]

On Thu, Nov 15, 2012 at 2:13 PM,  <kcirtap lavabit com> wrote:
> I've got a GtkTextBuffer, and I'm pasting some text that contains a
> carriage return in it (e.g., \r\n). I know for sure that there's an \r\n
> in it because when I copy the text from the buffer into a hex editor, it
> shows the \r\n is there.
>
> However when I get the text from the buffer (gtk_text_buffer_get_text),
> the \r isn't there... just the \n.
>
> Any idea why this might be?

You're using Windows OS and the file descriptors are set in _O_TEXT
mode instead of _O_BINARY mode.  The hex editor is using _O_BINARY
mode on the file descriptor and therefore the \r is retained.

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