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 Message 2370 
 Nicholas Boel to Carlos Navarro 
 space oddity 
 24 Feb 24 07:58:28 
 
MSGID: 1:154/10 65d9f5fc
REPLY: 2:341/234.99 65d9a1a6
PID: Smapinntpd/Linux 2.0 b20240216
CHRS: UTF-8 4
TZUTC: -0600
TID: hpt/lnx 1.9 2024-02-05
On Sat, 24 Feb 2024 14:58:38 +0100, Carlos Navarro -> Nicholas Boel wrote:

 NB>>>> How did my original reply to Carlos look on your end?

 JH>>> I think this is the message you're referring to:
 JH>>> https://postimg.cc/gallery/kq34nZw

  NB>> Yes, that's the one.. along with most of the others I wrote from
  NB>> Thunderbird. It seems Thunderbird adds non-breaking spaces (or   in
  NB>> html) anywhere there's two or more concurrent spaces next to each
other.

 CN> 1. An extra space in inserted in quoted lines that begin with one or more
 CN> spaces.

 CN> 2. If using format=flowed (def_flowed or user/flowed=on in 
mapi/JamNNTPd),
 CN> when there are two or more consecutive spaces in the quoted text, all but
 CN> one are replaced by non-breaking spaces (UTF-8: 0xC2 0xA0 / LATIN-1: 0xA0)
 CN> when posted to the NNTP server.

 CN> As FTN-style quotes are usually prefixed by a space, another one is
 CN> inserted and then the second one is converted to a NBSP.

 CN> If you manually remove the extra spaces in the quotes before sending the
 CN> reply, no NBSPs are posted. (I'm doing it in this reply.)

I've manually removed all but one space in the quotes above to see if this
indeed works on my end as well.

*shakes fist at Thunderbird*

Regards,
Nick

... "Take my advice, I don't use it anyway."
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