Re: Various mail/news and editor bugs

[Bob Page]

Josh Harding wrote:

> <http://www.landfield.com/rfcs/rfc2646.html>.  That covers
> how spaces have special meaning with format=flowed.

Yup .. it also says (last p. in section 4) 

        Note that this memo describes an on-the-wire format.
        It does not address formats for local file storage.

Given Robin's illustrations about copy & paste *within* composer,
I'd say the code was trying to merge the internal/local storage
with the external representation, rather than keeping them
separated, but I wasn't prepared to make the assumption about
the design rationale.

> Also the HTML spec says that
> multiple consecutive spaces are to be rendered as a single space.

Agreed, but text/plain (whether fixed or flowed) isn't HTML so I
don't think the HTML spec applies here.

bp