Re: [FileAPI] BlobBuilder.append("native")

On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 7:47 PM, Glenn Maynard <glenn@zewt.org> wrote:

> > "native" Newlines must be transformed to the default line-ending
> representation of the underlying host filesystem. For example, if the
> underlying filesystem is FAT32, newlines would be transformed into \r\n
> pairs as the text was appended to the state of the BlobBuilder.
>
> This is a bit odd: most programs write newlines according to the convention
> of the host system, not based on peeking at the underlying filesystem.  You
> won't even know the filesystem if you're writing to a network drive.  I'd
> suggest "must be transformed according to the conventions of the local
> system", and let implementations decide what that is.  It should probably be
> explicit that the only valid options are \r\n and \n, or reading files back
> in which were transformed in this way will be difficult.
>

Agreed.


>
> Also, in the Issue above that, it seems to mean "native" where it says
> "transparent".
>
> --
> Glenn Maynard
>
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