JDK-4938109 : Newlines are hard-coded as backslash-n all over standard doclet
  • Type: Bug
  • Component: tools
  • Sub-Component: javadoc(tool)
  • Affected Version: 5.0
  • Priority: P3
  • Status: Resolved
  • Resolution: Fixed
  • OS: other,windows_2000
  • CPU: generic
  • Submitted: 2003-10-15
  • Updated: 2014-05-05
  • Resolved: 2003-11-11
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5.0 b28Fixed
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Duplicate :  
JDK-4936400 - Test com/sun/javadoc/testNewLanguageFeatures still failing on windows
Description
There are "\n" characters hard coded all over the standard doclet code.  
We need to replace these characters with System.getProperty("line.seperator").
Comments
CONVERTED DATA BugTraq+ Release Management Values COMMIT TO FIX: tiger-beta FIXED IN: tiger-beta INTEGRATED IN: tiger-b28 tiger-beta
14-06-2004
PUBLIC COMMENTS Fixed. We now use the system specified default line separator. ###@###.### 2003-10-26
26-10-2003
EVALUATION Here's the reason we hard-coded these as \n (tell me if this makes sense). The docs we release are generated on Solaris. However, most of our users use Windows (about 90%). These are the line separators: Unix - line feed Windows - Carriage return + line feed Macintosh - carriage return I don't know what \n is -- is it line feed or carriage return or both? If you choose View > Source on Internet Explorer of our Solaris-generated javadocs the HTML source currently appears exactly as you would expect it, with each HTML line of text on a separate line. However, it used to be that View > Source would display the HTML as a single paragraph with the newlines ignored, which made it extremely difficult for people (particularly me) to diagnose the HTML. This was because the "View Source" mode of IE does not interpret a line feed as a line separator, I suppose. I asked Atul to fix the pages so they could be easily viewed in View Source on Windows. (I cannot find any bug report on this.) Anyway, I think it's quite important for people on all platforms to be able to easily diagnose the HTML. I don't know if View Source has been made any smarter, but please check that out before making the change below. Are there other considerations that should overrule this? ###@###.### 2003-10-15
15-10-2003