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
