Path: news.daimi.aau.dk!news-feed.inet.tele.dk!bofh.vszbr.cz!howland.erols.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!192.87.106.104!surfnet.nl!news.tue.nl!svstud!flip From: flip@svstud.win.tue.nl (Philip Bierhoff) Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.gui,comp.lang.java.help,ne.general,comp.lang.beta Subject: Re: Word Process Anywhere Beta Testers Needed Followup-To: comp.lang.java.gui,comp.lang.java.help,ne.general,comp.lang.beta Date: 26 Mar 1998 07:03:49 GMT Organization: Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands Lines: 16 Message-ID: <6fcukl$pgm@tuegate.tue.nl> References: <6f3p9b$ntb@fridge.shore.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: svstud.win.tue.nl X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Xref: news.daimi.aau.dk comp.lang.java.gui:12074 comp.lang.java.help:20364 comp.lang.beta:11496 Michael Hayes (hayesm@wpi.edu) wrote: : Our applet runs well with other JDK 1.1 compliant browsers except for wrod : wrapping. The reason is the carrriage return (\r). For some reason : Netscape and Sun did not allow their VM able to interpret all the Ascii : characters. If someone out their does not believe me, try setting the : text of a TextArea to \r and see the square. The Ascii character set is : universal in the computer industry, and has been for quite some time. : Why isn't it supported now? It is not our fault that Sun and Netscape : can't make their VM able to interpret a simple character. Well, I'm not 100% sure about this, but isn't it a known problem that Microsoft uses '\n\r' for going to a new line and ALL others use '\n' ? Why don't you try this instead of the '\r' ? Philip