I thought wordpad was also part of a standard windows install? It does support the unix style line endings. Or am I misremembering and wordpad was an add-on?
Wordpad is part of Windows Server, but it is a rich text editor not a plain text editor. Therefore there are some file formats that it will interpret and corrupt on save.
Definitely part of a "normal" Windows install, but I don't know if it's part of Windows Server too.