> On Aug 9, 2020, at 5:26 PM, Kerim Aydin via agora-discussion > <agora-discussion@agoranomic.org> wrote: > > > On 8/9/2020 5:16 PM, Falsifian via agora-discussion wrote: >>> My email client: the names line up. >> >> More info: I'm using Thunderbird, and when I "view source", the message >> appears like it does in the list archive at mailman.agoranomic.org (i.e. >> non-zombies are further to the right). >> > > I've consistently noticed this issue with the emails I send, for a couple > years at least. When there's a leading space on a line, an extra space is > inserted along the way (Thunderbird and gmail). It's additive so it can > creep to the right over time (e.g. if I use the sent version of the > previous report to make the next one). I gave up looking for the reason > and now am either making everything flush left, or making sure not to mix > flush with non-flush in a single table (and adjusting for the creep). > > -G. >
Some experiments, sent with Apple Mail, explicitly set to plain text, via Fastmail's SMTP servers: Prefixed by one space Prefixed by two spaces Prefixed by one non-breaking space Prefixed by one non-breaking space, followed by one normal space Prefixed by two non-breaking spaces I explicitly entered the nbsp's through Apple's Unicode picker, but copying them into a hex viewer shows normal spaces, so I'm hoping Apple just does some munging of the clipboard. But it's possible the spaces are all the same. Gaelan
