[BUG] Text.from_ansi leaves empty lines when input string has CRLF line endings

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#4,090 opened on Apr 22, 2026 5 comments 1 reaction 0 assignees View on GitHub

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Difficulty: 2/5
Estimated time: 1-3 hours
Newbie friendliness: 72/100

Issue type: Bug
Clarity: Mostly clear
Activity status: Quiet
Tech stack: python
Domain: cli

Research direction

Start at the Text.from_ansi entry point and reproduce the reported behavior with the CRLF string shown in the issue. Confirm that the resulting plain text preserves the expected content and line endings rather than producing empty lines.

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Describe the bug

When Text.from_ansi is given an input string with CRLF (\r\n) line endings the result is just empty lines:

Python 3.12.3 (main, Mar  3 2026, 12:15:18) [GCC 13.3.0] on linux                                                                                                                                                                                             
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.                                                                                                                                                                                        
>>> from rich.text import Text
>>> Text.from_ansi("Hello\r\nWorld\r\n").plain                  
'\n\n'

when the expected result would be

'Hello\r\nWorld\r\n'

or even

'Hello\nWorld\n'

rich versions <15.0.0 are affected by #3577 but do not result in empty lines.

Platform

python 3.12.3
rich 15.0.0

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