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echo: jamnntpd
to: Carlos Navarro
from: Nicholas Boel
date: 2024-02-24 07:58:00
subject: space oddity

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 Smapi/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

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