diff --git a/.editorconfig b/.editorconfig
index d9de0c9..75bbdcb 100644
--- a/.editorconfig
+++ b/.editorconfig
@@ -18,3 +18,9 @@ trim_trailing_whitespace = true
 
 [*.{md,mdx}]
 trim_trailing_whitespace = false
+
+[*.bdf]
+charset = utf-8
+end_of_line = lf
+insert_final_newline = false
+trim_trailing_whitespace = false
diff --git a/.github/workflows/release.yml b/.github/workflows/release.yml
index 91100b4..8a66594 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/release.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/release.yml
@@ -8,9 +8,9 @@ jobs:
   deploy:
     runs-on: ubuntu-latest
     steps:
-      - uses: actions/checkout@v2
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
       - name: Set up Python
-        uses: actions/setup-python@v2
+        uses: actions/setup-python@v5
         with:
           python-version: "3.x"
       - name: Install dependencies
diff --git a/.github/workflows/test.yml b/.github/workflows/test.yml
index 14bb199..029ec9d 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/test.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/test.yml
@@ -16,24 +16,25 @@ jobs:
     strategy:
       matrix:
         os:
-          - ubuntu-latest
-          - macos-latest
+          - ubuntu-20.04
           - windows-latest
-        python: ["3.5", "3.6", "3.7", "3.8", "3.9", "3.10"]
+        python: ["3.5", "3.6", "3.7", "3.8", "3.9", "3.10", "3.11", "3.12", "3.13"]
 
     steps:
-      - uses: actions/checkout@v2
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
       - name: Setup Python
-        uses: actions/setup-python@v2
+        uses: actions/setup-python@v5
         with:
           python-version: ${{ matrix.python }}
+        env:
+          PIP_TRUSTED_HOST: "pypi.python.org pypi.org files.pythonhosted.org"
       - name: Install Tox and any other packages
         run: pip install tox
       - name: Run Tox
         # Run tox using the version of Python in `PATH`
         run: tox -e py
       - name: Upload coverage to Codecov
-        uses: codecov/codecov-action@v1
-        if: matrix.os == 'ubuntu-latest' && matrix.python == '3.9'
+        uses: codecov/codecov-action@v5
+        if: github.event_name == 'push' && matrix.os == 'ubuntu-20.04' && matrix.python == '3.13'
         with:
           file: ./coverage.xml
diff --git a/.vscode/settings.json b/.vscode/settings.json
deleted file mode 100644
index 81002b9..0000000
--- a/.vscode/settings.json
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,6 +0,0 @@
-{
-  "python.testing.unittestEnabled": false,
-  "python.testing.nosetestsEnabled": false,
-  "python.testing.pytestEnabled": true,
-  "python.envFile": "${workspaceRoot}/vscode.env"
-}
diff --git a/src/bdfparser/bdfparser.py b/src/bdfparser/bdfparser.py
index e325ddc..982e89c 100644
--- a/src/bdfparser/bdfparser.py
+++ b/src/bdfparser/bdfparser.py
@@ -120,7 +120,9 @@ def __parse_headers(self):
 
         while 1:
 
-            line = next(self.__f)
+            line = next(self.__f).strip()
+            while len(line) == 0:
+                line = next(self.__f).strip()
             kvlist = line.split(None, 1)
             l = len(kvlist)
 
@@ -203,7 +205,9 @@ def __parse_props(self):
 
         while 1:
 
-            line = next(self.__f)
+            line = next(self.__f).strip()
+            while len(line) == 0:
+                line = next(self.__f).strip()
             kvlist = line.split(None, 1)
             l = len(kvlist)
 
diff --git a/tests/fonts/unifont-13.0.04-for-test.bdf b/tests/fonts/unifont-13.0.04-for-test.bdf
index 2b59892..5ac13bf 100644
--- a/tests/fonts/unifont-13.0.04-for-test.bdf
+++ b/tests/fonts/unifont-13.0.04-for-test.bdf
@@ -1,4 +1,7 @@
-STARTFONT 2.1
+  
+
+  STARTFONT 2.1
+  
 FONT -gnu-Unifont-Medium-R-Normal-Sans-16-160-75-75-c-80-iso10646-1
 SIZE 16 75 75
 FONTBOUNDINGBOX 16 16 0 -2
@@ -6,6 +9,8 @@ COMMENT "Generated by fontforge, http://fontforge.sourceforge.net"
 COMMENT "(C)Copyright"
 STARTPROPERTIES 24
 COPYRIGHT "Copyright (C) 1998-2020 Roman Czyborra, Paul Hardy, Qianqian Fang, Andrew Miller, Johnnie Weaver, David Corbett, Rebecca Bettencourt, et al. License: SIL Open Font License version 1.1 and GPLv2+: GNU GPL version 2 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html> with the GNU Font Embedding Exception."
+  
+
 FONT_VERSION "13.0.04"
 FONT_TYPE "Bitmap"
 FOUNDRY "GNU"
@@ -30,7 +35,13 @@ FONT_ASCENT 14
 FONT_DESCENT 2
 DEFAULT_CHAR 65533
 ENDPROPERTIES
-CHARS 849
+
+
+
+  
+
+   
+   CHARS 849
 STARTCHAR U+0001
 ENCODING 1
 SWIDTH 1000 0
@@ -19558,4 +19569,10 @@ BITMAP
 4A
 4A
 ENDCHAR
+
+
+
+
+  
 ENDFONT
+  
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/tox.ini b/tox.ini
index a5eac07..d531c0e 100644
--- a/tox.ini
+++ b/tox.ini
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 [tox]
-envlist = py{35,36,37,38,39}
+envlist = py35,py36,py37,py38,py39,py310,py311,py312,py313
 minversion = 3.3.0
-isolated_build = true
+isolated_build = True
 
 [testenv]
 deps =
diff --git a/vscode.env b/vscode.env
deleted file mode 100644
index 76297c2..0000000
--- a/vscode.env
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-PYTHONPATH=/;src/;${PYTHONPATH}