Re: Various mail/news and editor bugs

[Josh Harding]

Bob Page wrote:
> However, considering a SPC character (ascii 0x20) for instance, which
> has a specific representation for any particular character set, why
> is it more difficult to handle than, say, a capital M character?  Why
> don't we have lots of issues with "M" handling?
> 
> This isn't a troll, I'm just curious about the design rationale of
> the code.

As Ben suggested earlier in this thread, read
<http://www.landfield.com/rfcs/rfc2646.html>.  That covers how spaces
have special meaning with format=flowed.  Also the HTML spec says that
multiple consecutive spaces are to be rendered as a single space. (this
is why we have &nbsp;).  So a space can have different meanings in
different contexts... but an "M" can only have one meaning (to the
computer at least).

                                                The Amigo