On Wed, 24 Feb 2021 at 10:18, Michael Hennebry < henne...@web.cs.ndsu.nodak.edu> wrote:
> [...] > In other people's posts, I've occasionally seen what I think was > supposed to be whitespace as question marks in black diamonds.. > This time my own blanks came back to me that way. > They stay that way in alpines default editor. > Using its vim editor, I see blue vertical strokes followed by blanks. > Any idea what is happening? > > I suspect it might have something to do with me using alpine through ssh. > That said, I thought blanks were immune to that sort of thing. > If the original text was Unicode, there are many new possible types of "blanks": n-space, m-space, non-breaking space, etc <https://jkorpela.fi/chars/spaces.html>. Conversions to other encodings often have problems. This can be particularly annoying in PDF handouts were cutting and pasting a block of code into an editor looks "correct" but won't compile/execute. It is one more reason to avoid spaces in file and directory names that may be shared with others. -- George N. White III
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