Subj : space oddity
To   : Nicholas Boel
From : Carlos Navarro
Date : Sat Feb 24 2024 08:58:38

24/02/2024 1:36, Nicholas Boel -> Jay Harris:

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


Exactly.

I've noticed this in Thunderbird (and Seamonkey):

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

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

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

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

Carlos

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