JabRef adds "^M" at the end of lines

[tazheinrich]

JabRef version

5.3 (latest release)

Operating system

Windows

Details on version and operating system

Windows 10 & ArchLinux

Checked with the latest development build

• I made a backup of my libraries before testing the latest development version.
• I have tested the latest development version and the problem persists

Steps to reproduce the behaviour

I'm using JabRef to organize my bibliography, which is hosted in a Dropbox-folder. At work I'm on a Windows 10 machine, at home I'm using a ArchLinux distribution. I write LaTeX, org-mode and Markdown documents in emacs, and use https://github.com/bdarcus/citar (an alternative to helm-bibtex) to insert references to my texts. The default encoding of the bibfile is UTF-8.

On the windows machine, JabRef adds "^M" at the end of lines of an entry, supposedly to break these lines for a nicer display. Unfortunately, entries with this charachter are not displayed by citar. Once in a while I delete these characters, but it gets really annoying editing dozens of entries by hand.

You can see the faulty entries where citar does not display author, year, and title of the entries, but recognizes that these entries exist.

@Book{Molitor1992,^M author = {Ute Molitor},^M date = {1992},^M langid = {ngerman},^M title = {W{\"{a}}len Frauen anders? Zur Soziologie eines frauenspezifischen politischen Verhaltens in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland},^M location = {Baden-Baden},^M publisher = {Nomos},^M }^M

It might be a general issue with citar, but on ArchLinux "^M" is not added to the entries which is weird, because the JabRef settings are identical on both machines.

I'm sorry, if it's not related to JabRef at all.

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[tazheinrich]

JabRef#390 might be the solution, I'm looking for.

[Siedlerchr]

I suggest you try the latest dev version, there have been some fixes regarding this issue https://builds.jabref.org/