Re: [Xmlstar-devel] Line ending issue for unicode XML files

[Noam P. <npo...@us...>]

On Mon, Sep 26, 2011 at 6:22 AM, Ming Chen <cim...@ya...> wrote:
> In all output files, the line endings have strange format. I think they should be 00 0D 00 0A or 0D 00 0A 00.
>
> I am using the latest windows version (1.2.1). My OS is Win7 64bit.
>
> Could someone help to check this?

Yes, I think I see what is happening: the libxml output routine is
writing just a newline character and expecting the c-runtime to do the
conversion to the system specific line ending. Problem is, nobody told
the c-runtime that the output is in UTF16, so it's just waiting until
it sees an ascii newline (0A) and then it adds a carriage return (0D).

Unfortunately, it seems there is no way to tell Windows to use switch
stdout to UTF16 until the VS2005 c-runtime. XMLStarlet uses mingw, so
the best I can do is change to binary mode, meaning the line endings
will be 00 0A.