The lists have the MS newline character (^M) after every entry , but are missing the unix newline character (\n) after some entries.

Maybe java doesn't care and the (^M) newline character is enough. Then the only problem would be non-java and non-MS systems/apps (Gtk-G on Unix) unless they have it coded to accept the MS newline on Unix builds.

It is a real easy fix. If you need any help with that let me know.

Just replace all "^M" with "\n" then all "\n\n" with "\n" then all "\n" with "\n^M" or "^M\n" (or something like that). I'm not sure it there is a standard for which one is to preceed the other.