The difference in the treatment of line breaks between Unix and
Windows is a well-known problem. While Unix uses a single LineFeed
character ('\n', hex 0x0A) as line separator, Windows uses the
combination CarriageReturn/LineFeed ('\r\n', hex 0x0D0A). Java
automatically converts text as needed which generally works well.
However, the XML standard specifies that an XML parser has to
convert line breaks of any type into LineFeed only, regardless of
the system under which it is running. This could lead to trouble,
for example when checking a multi line text field. QF-Test works around
the problem by converting all text strings read from the SUT to
the Unix version with LineFeed only. This has the added benefit that
tests created on one system will run unchanged on the other.
