The specification of Julia for reading text files and the different behavior between operating systems

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What is the specification of Julia for reading text files which have newlines (e.g. "\n", "\r\n", "\r")? My program has a bug related to the different behavior between operating systems about newlines.

I made a following file lf.txt on macOS by:

write("lf.txt", "---\nhello:\n...\n")

then added and committed and pushed by Git. On Windows, I pulled it by Git and read it by:

str = read("lf.txt", String)

but got

julia> @show str
str = "---\r\nhello:\r\n...\r\n"

Why? Does Git something wrong?

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This is git behavior, not related to julia. Julia just reads whatever is on disk.

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I fixed EOL newlines for some files by adding

*.yaml text eol=lf
*.crlf.yaml text eol=crlf

to .gitattributes.

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