On Thursday, June 5, 2014 8:42:53 PM UTC+5:30, Steven D'Aprano wrote: > On Thu, 05 Jun 2014 05:56:07 -0700, Rustom Mody wrote: > > 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. In the context of Mark Harris saying that people around him dont like python because of tabs getting garbled in forum-transits, you made the (rather extreme) statement: > >> 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. I was pointing out that that behavior is not unknown even on this very list. Now whether thunderbird's behavior is straight buggy or compliant with (some bizarre) standard is another question - for a thunderbird list I hope! JFTR: For me this reason is miserable. Communication with others is important. Visual pleasantness¹ for oneself is more important. Which is why I advocate unicode in program text even though - there will be new breakages - setting up efficient input methods may not be completely trivial - and there will be problems (like with tab) on transiting systems etc ------------ ¹ One of Dijkstra's memorable quotes: <<when we recognize the battle against chaos, mess, and unmastered complexity as one of computing science's major callings, we must admit that "Beauty is our Business">> http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/transcriptions/EWD06xx/EWD697.html -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
