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jftuga / chars

chars

Determine and detect the end-of-line format, tabs, bom, nul and non-ascii characters

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12Mentions
0Explicit recommenders
20GitHub stars
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Determine and detect the end-of-line format, tabs, bom, nul and non-ascii characters

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Observed mentions: 2022-01-17 20:24:24 UTC to 2025-07-09 04:29:18 UTC.

02462022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 7 mentions; 1 submissions, 6 comments20222023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments20232024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 3 mentions; 1 submissions, 2 comments2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2025

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20222022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC716
20232023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20242024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC312
20252025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101

What Hacker News says

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These are all CLI... https://github.com/jftuga/less-Windows - [not really mine, but I just help maintain the port] - GNU less compiled for Windows 10 & 11. Stand-alone version with no dependencies. https://github.com/jftuga/gofwd - A cross-platform TCP port forwarder with Duo 2FA and Geo-IP integration https://github.com/jftuga/spotprice - Quickly get AWS spot instance pricing - a bit easier to use than the aws cli; is also faster and has more features https://github.com/jftuga/tcpscan - A standalone, fast, simple, multi-threaded cross-platform IPv4 TCP port scanner https://github.com/jftuga/ipinfo - Return IP address info including geographic location and distance when given IP address, email address, host name or URL https://github.com/jftuga/photo_id_resizer - Resize photo ID images using face recognition technology https://github.com/
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jftuga/chars - Determine the end-of-line format, tabs, bom, and nul characters Here is a fairly new Firefox extension that I created... https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/foxcolorbox/ - allows you to change and customize browser Window colors. When you open a new window, it will have a distinct color. You can also change colors by clicking on the extension icon.
In Ask HN: What apps have you created for your own use?
Thanks for the issue, I've subscribed to it. https://github.com/jftuga/chars/issues/2 According to the page, several machines and operating systems used CR as EOL. While the systems are all obsolete, files from that era that use CR as EOL could persist and be transferred to modern systems. Clearly those are weird on modern systems, so they should be warned about in a linting situation, which I would like to use your project 'chars' in. Having different EOL chars within the same file is definitely a thing, usually by mistake. I had to fix a bug about this recently: https://github.com/EionRobb/purple-discord/pull/416
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