On 25/12/2024 09:48, Ralph Corderoy wrote:
Both your email I'm replying to, and the previous one, arrived with the
first of every pair of two spaces you entered turned into a non-breaking
one.
OK.
It might be possible to test this by entering

     Liberty means responsibility.  That is why most men dread it.

into a Thunderbird draft, then selecting it and pasting it into ‘pr -tv’
to see if the first space has already been corrupted.

I wasn't able to successfully use pr because it tried to treat the text
as a file:

terry@OptiPlex:~$ pr -t -v "Liberty means responsibility.  That is why
most men dread it."
pr: 'Liberty means responsibility.  That is why most men dread it.': No
such file or directory

I'm not sure what I was doing wrong because I was able to process other
strings using incantations that I found on the web, but as soon as I
tried the above it failed as shown. This was whether I had cycled the
text through Thunderbird or not.

When you posted the link to the bug report a day or two ago, I was
rather busy, and ended up missing it.  Anyway, as you say, I'm not going
to be able to change my ways, so I'm afraid that things will stay the
same until the Thunderbird team decide to fix it.

Of course, I could go back to KMail :-) and put up with *their* unfixed
bugs, which are much worse.

--
Terry Coles


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