Starting with the current Windows 10 Insider build, Notepad will support Unix/Linux line endings (LF), Macintosh line endings (CR), and Windows Line endings (CRLF) as usual. Today, we’re excited to announce that we have fixed this issue! This has been a major annoyance for developers, IT Pros, administrators, and end users throughout the community.
bashrc text file, which only contains Unix LF EOL characters:Īs you can see, Notepad is incorrectly displaying the file’s contents, making the file look garbled. This means that Notepad was unable to correctly display the contents of text files created in Unix, Linux and macOS.įor example, here’s a screenshot of Notepad trying to display the contents of a Linux.
For many years, Windows Notepad only supported text documents containing Windows End of Line (EOL) characters – Carriage Return (CR) & Line Feed (LF).
