[bug #46018] texi2any makes inconsistent EOL style

[Eli Zaretskii]

Follow-up Comment #5, bug #46018 (project texinfo):

> I just realized that we have already discussed this sort of EOL conversion
in relation with [bug #38795]. In [bug #38795] my problem was that the BBDB
manual was made of several files, some of them had svn:eol-style set to LF and
others to native becoming CRLF for MSW users, so when compiling the source
with makeinfo I also had inconsistent EOL's in the output.  I try to summarize
the discussion that had happened below:

Thanks.

IME, the only sane way of handling this mess is always maintain the Texinfo
sources in Unix-style LF-only format.  (For the same reason, I always set up
all my VCSes, be it SVN, bzr, Git, or CVS, to never convert the EOLs.)

We made a change in texi2any so that it produces Unix-style EOLs in Info
files, because otherwise the CR characters that are typically stripped by
text-mode I/O used by native Windows programs would otherwise disrupt
following references by byte numbers.


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