On Thursday, June 5, 2014 2:09:34 PM UTC+5:30, Steven D'Aprano wrote: > On Wed, 04 Jun 2014 22:43:05 -0400, Terry Reedy wrote:
> > Many mail readers treat \t as a null char since it actually has no > > standard translation into screen space. > I challenge that assertion. There are two standard translations into > screen space: jump to the next multiple of 8 spaces, or 1 space. > Treating \t as a single space would be pathetic but standard. Treating it > as (up to) 8 spaces would be more useful, and standard. Rendering it as a > picture of a banana dancing on the ceiling would be silly and non- > standard. Not rendering it at all is even more stupid and less justified. A random thread (I guess one can find more): https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2012-March/621993.html -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
