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Re: Whitespace and '&nbsp'

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Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org>
Date
May 27, 2011, 16:50 UTC
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Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> writes:
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> On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 2:57 PM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
>>
>> But in the longer term, I think we should find what MUA causes this
>> breakage and yell at them. It might be some mail relays, but I am not sure
>> where these come from.  I often see alternating real whitespace and nbsp
                         ^^ Like this...
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>> in "> " indented quotes.
>
> In this case, it was
>
>   Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8
>   Content-Disposition: inline
>   Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
>   User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15)
>
> so there was nothing odd in the MUA.
Is this a gmail thing?
Andreas.
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Message 4 of 15 in “Whitespace and '&nbsp'”
  1. Linus TorvaldsMay 26, 2011
  2. Junio C HamanoMay 26, 2011
  3. Linus TorvaldsMay 26, 2011
  4. Andreas SchwabMay 27, 2011
  5. Linus TorvaldsMay 27, 2011
  6. Junio C HamanoMay 27, 2011
  7. Junio C HamanoMay 27, 2011
  8. Linus TorvaldsMay 27, 2011
  9. Junio C HamanoMay 27, 2011
  10. 1/3 ws.c: add a helper to format comma separated messagesJunio C Hamano, May 27, 2011
  11. 2/3 War on nbsp: a bit of retreatJunio C Hamano, May 27, 2011
  12. 3/3 War on nbsp: Add "nbsp" whitespace breakage classJunio C Hamano, May 27, 2011
  13. 4/3 War on nbsp: teach "git apply" to check and fix nbspJunio C Hamano, May 28, 2011
  14. Daniel NyströmMay 30, 2011
  15. Matthieu MoyMay 26, 2011

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