From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
To: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Cc: Git Mailing List <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Whitespace and ' '
Date: Thu, 26 May 2011 15:08:44 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <BANLkTi=hYR4ow1eMR3rHkMuVRsHJ=TFDZA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7vzkm9unu0.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
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
> 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. And everything I have (gmail in
web browser, less, gnome-terminal) treats the nbsp as a regular space,
so it doesn't show up as any inverted block or anything like that for
me until I tried to compile it.
It could easily have been there in the patch originally and wasn't
compile-tested. On some keyboard layouts, AltGr+space gives a nbsp.
Linus
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-05-26 22:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-05-26 21:12 Whitespace and ' ' Linus Torvalds
2011-05-26 21:57 ` Junio C Hamano
2011-05-26 22:08 ` Linus Torvalds [this message]
2011-05-27 16:50 ` Andreas Schwab
2011-05-27 17:01 ` Linus Torvalds
2011-05-27 18:31 ` Junio C Hamano
2011-05-27 19:15 ` Junio C Hamano
2011-05-27 21:14 ` Linus Torvalds
2011-05-27 22:47 ` Junio C Hamano
2011-05-27 22:48 ` [PATCH 1/3] ws.c: add a helper to format comma separated messages Junio C Hamano
2011-05-27 22:49 ` [PATCH 2/3] War on nbsp: a bit of retreat Junio C Hamano
2011-05-27 22:51 ` [PATCH 3/3] War on nbsp: Add "nbsp" whitespace breakage class Junio C Hamano
2011-05-28 1:31 ` [PATCH 4/3] War on nbsp: teach "git apply" to check and fix nbsp Junio C Hamano
2011-05-30 12:52 ` Whitespace and ' ' Daniel Nyström
2011-05-26 22:21 ` Matthieu Moy
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