Theme information in style.css being corrupted

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I am customising someone else’s theme to allow the website owner to edit more regions than she could previously.

I copied the theme into a new folder, with a different folder name to the original.

I edited style.css, and replaced the theme information with:

/*
Theme Name: Customisable SuperBaby & Ted
Author: Steve Doig
Author URI: http://tech.doig.com.au
Description: Modified version of SuperBaby & Ted to allow edits to the home page and footer navigation.
Version: 2.0
*/

Yet when I upload style.css to the theme’s folder, I see this in Appearance > Themes:

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I’ve added a blank line between each line, with no difference.

I’ve copied this info into a new Notepad, copied from that Notepad, and pasted back into the original Notepad with no difference.

Can you see what is going on here?

1 Answer
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I use Notepad2 to edit style.css

I opened it in Notepad++, and there were extra line breaks on every line.

I opened it in Dreamweaver CS6, selected Commands > Apply Source Formatting, and all extra line breaks were removed.

I uploaded it, and it now views normally in the browser (Originally viewing style.css showed the line breaks were gone).

The Theme information is now displaying properly.

Note: the style sheet was displaying properly in Notepad2 originally. Perhaps Notepad2 handles line breaks differently.

Thanks for your help.

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