Hi all, Does anybody know how to stop the Gmail webmail frontend from corrupting sequences of space characters in preformatted text?
When replying to a plaintext mail, Gmail seems to turn every second space into an ISO8859-1/Unicode non-breaking space character (U00A0). This seems to be a workaround for broken mail readers which would incorrectly collapse spaces in implicitly fixed-format text in received messages. Unfortunately, it's also an effective workaround for correct behaviour by properly-implemented mail clients. Direct replies via SMTP to smtp.googlemail.com don't get destroyed in this way, unless a broken client is used is used to generate the reply. This seems to be the cause behind patch discussion threads turning, sooner or later, into a mass of ? characters (this is what some agents like Mutt squash non-ascii characters to when quoting the original message in ascii plaintext replies -- this compounds the problem but is not the root cause -- the text is already badly damaged by this stage). See: * http://www.ieft.org/rfc/rfc2646.txt * http://lists.luv.asn.au/pipermail/luv-main/2011-November/000580.html Apart from "never reply to patches via webmail", does anyone know a workaround? Cheers ---Dave ----- Forwarded message from Dave Martin <dave.mar...@linaro.org> ----- MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.52.19.176 with HTTP; Wed, 21 Mar 2012 08:31:28 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <20120321153006.ga2...@linaro.org> References: <20120321153006.ga2...@linaro.org> Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2012 15:31:28 +0000 Delivered-To: dave.mar...@linaro.org Message-ID: <ca+wbfdezdj3j8zsumjz4bky6c6dhdgjvnawxfdfin7-jkrs...@mail.gmail.com> Subject: Re: Gmail test From: Dave Martin <dave.mar...@linaro.org> To: Dave Martin <dave.mar...@linaro.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Can Gmail do it ... ?? Come on! On Wed, Mar 21, 2012 at 3:30 PM, Dave Martin <dave.mar...@linaro.org> wrote: > two spaces > > preformatted > text > is a pain -- Dave Martin <dave.mar...@linaro.org> Linaro Kernel Working Group -- http://www.linaro.org/ -- Open source software for ARM SoCs http://www.facebook.com/pages/Linaro http://twitter.com/#!/linaroorg http://www.linaro.org/linaro-blog/ ----- End forwarded message ----- _______________________________________________ linaro-dev mailing list linaro-dev@lists.linaro.org http://lists.linaro.org/mailman/listinfo/linaro-dev
