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Most likely, whatever app you're using on Windows is dumb enough that it can't figure out what to do with the Mac line endings. TextWrangler will let you change the line breaks, so you could use it to create plain text files with Windows line breaks.

Notepad has been around as long as Windows, originally shipping with Windows 1.0 way back in 1985. However, it's taken Microsoft 33 years to fix one of Notepad's most annoying problems: it can't display all text files correctly.

While that may sound ridiculous, it has been a frustration for anyone attempting to open a text file in Notepad that was created on a Unix, Linux, or macOS system. The text output is garbled, and it's all because of line endings.

As Microsoft explains on its developer blog, until now Notepad supported text documents containing three types of line ending characters. They are Windows End of Line (EOL) characters, Carriage Return (CR), and Line Feed (LF). If the text document uses those, the output in Notepad will be perfectly formatted.

Text documents created in Unix, Linux, or macOS use different line ending characters. When you try and open them in Notepad you see a garbled mess of text like that shown above.

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The latest Windows 10 Insider build contains the updated version of Notepad complete with additional line endings support. The text editor can now handle Unix/Linux line endings (LF), Macintosh line endings (CR), and Windows line endings (CRLF), so all bases are covered. The status bar will even show you which line endings the file uses.

If for some reason supporting more line endings isn't desirable, Microsoft allows you to disable it in the Windows Registry. Simply navigate to [HKEY_CURRENT_USERSoftwareMicrosoftNotepad] and set fWindowsOnlyEOL to 1. After that, non-Windows text files will continue to be displayed in garbled form.

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