Messages in this thread | | | From | Dmitry Torokhov <> | Subject | Re: [git pull][resend] Input updates for 2.6.22-rc7 | Date | Thu, 5 Jul 2007 23:40:41 -0400 |
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On Thursday 05 July 2007 19:09, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > On Thu, 5 Jul 2007, Dmitry Torokhov wrote: > > > > Please consider pulling from: > > > > Â Â Â Â git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dtor/input.git for-linus > > There's somethign wrong with your emails, and it's very irritating. >
Oops, sorry.
> I cannot just cut-and-paste the whole line, because your tabs and spaces > aren't tabs and spaces, they are some horrible abomination. >
Yes, for some reason Kmail somethmes does this when cut-and-pasting from another email. I don't think it does it when cutting and pasting from anywhere else...
> What _looks_ like a tab above, when I save it and look at it with "od", it > shows it true nasty life: it's not a tab, and it's not even eight spaces, > it's four copies of the byte sequence '\302\240 ' ('\xC2\xA0\x20'), ie > some horrid nasty three-byte sequence where one character is a space, and > the previous two characters are some utf-8 abomination. > > I have no idea what kind of crap you use to generate it, and quite > frankly, I don't want to know. I just want it to stop, so that when I > cut-and-paste, I don't get random UTF-8 characters that just *look* like > spaces but don't act like it, and cause my shell to very reasonably whine > about the result. > > I think the "c2 a0" character is the utf-8 representation of a   > (non-breaking space), but: > - you are damn well sending text > - it's followed by a regular space, so it's stupid > - please don't do it. > > It says your user-agent is "Kmail", and maybe there is some way to fix it. > And if kmail is correct, please make a bug-report to the kmail people. > Sending hidden invisible utf-8 crap that looks like space, but doesn't act > like it, is just damn impolite by kmail. I assume you weren't even aware > of the random crud you are sending out? >
I was not... The copy I got from LKML looks fine in Kmail, Gmail and MS Outlook.
The thing is I like Kmail because it never screwed up patches that I sent out. I guess I will just stop cutting and pasting e-mails and just adjust my script that generates changelog and diffstat. The issue may even be already fixed in newer versions of Kmail, I am a little behind times with my setup...
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