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 Message 2373 
 Wilfred van Velzen to Nicholas Boel 
 Re: space oddity 
 24 Feb 24 16:38:07 
 
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PID: GED+LNX 1.1.5-b20240223
MSGID: 2:280/464 65da0d9c
REPLY: 1:154/10 65d9f5fc
Hi Nicholas,

On 2024-02-24 07:58:28, you wrote to Carlos Navarro:

 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
  NB>>>   in html) anywhere there's two or more concurrent spaces next
  NB>>> to each other.

They are here on these quotes, but on none of the others...?

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

 CN>> 2. If using format=flowed (def_flowed or user/flowed=on in
 CN>> Smapi/JamNNTPd), when there are two or more consecutive spaces in the
 CN>> quoted text, all but one are replaced by non-breaking spaces (UTF-8:
 CN>> 0xC2 0xA0 / LATIN-1: 0xA0) 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
 CN>> the reply, no NBSPs are posted. (I'm doing it in this reply.)

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

 NB> *shakes fist at Thunderbird*


Bye, Wilfred.

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