On Thu, 05 Jun 2014 05:56:07 -0700, Rustom Mody wrote: > 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
I don't understand why you posted this link. I wasn't questioning Terry's description of the problem, that his mail client eats tabs. Thunderbird doesn't eat tabs for me, but I believe Terry when he says it eats them for him. I was questioning his assertion that there is no standard way to render a tab character. -- Steven D'Aprano http://import-that.dreamwidth.org/ -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
