Windows Notepad has never been able to handle any newline convention other than the old DOS/Windows/CP/M one (CR-LF). Now, after so many decades, Microsoft has finally decided to give it “universal newline” capability, so it can handle lines ending in LF-only (Unix/Linux) and CR-only (old MacOS) <http://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/05/08/windows_notepad_unix_macos_line_endings/>.
Gee, I wonder how many lines of code that took...
The code wasn't the problem... The levels of management to go through to approve changes to a core component of Windows, then the same for applying for budget, approving budget (each time several rounds) and then recruiting the right people to do the job (advertised worldwide, multiple rounds of interviews, visa problems to sort out etc). Once the changes were implemented, testing was performed on randomly drawn user groups, compared, revisited, confirming that the code changes were working as expected and then signing the changes off before they could go into production. Probably cost USD 1,500,000. Conservative estimate. ;-) Cheers, Peter -- Peter Reutemann Dept. of Computer Science University of Waikato, NZ +64 (7) 858-5174 http://www.cms.waikato.ac.nz/~fracpete/ http://www.data-mining.co.nz/