Not much help but the going work-around is to not use the webmail interface for this and use mutt, thunderbird, etc. via imap and smtp. The added advantage there is you can add extensions to linkify bugs and such for places like launchpad, bugzilla, etc..
J On Wed, Mar 21, 2012 at 9:55 AM, Dave Martin <dave.mar...@linaro.org> wrote: > Hi all, > > Does anybody know how to stop the Gmail webmail frontend from corrupting > sequences of space characters in preformatted text? > > When replying to a plaintext mail, Gmail seems to turn every second space > into an ISO8859-1/Unicode non-breaking space character (U00A0). This seems > to be a workaround for broken mail readers which would incorrectly collapse > spaces in implicitly fixed-format text in received messages. Unfortunately, > it's also an effective workaround for correct behaviour by > properly-implemented mail clients. Direct replies via SMTP to > smtp.googlemail.com don't get destroyed in this way, unless a broken client > is used is used to generate the reply. > > This seems to be the cause behind patch discussion threads turning, sooner or > later, into a mass of ? characters (this is what some agents like Mutt squash > non-ascii characters to when quoting the original message in ascii plaintext > replies -- this compounds the problem but is not the root cause -- the text > is already badly damaged by this stage). > > See: > * http://www.ieft.org/rfc/rfc2646.txt > * http://lists.luv.asn.au/pipermail/luv-main/2011-November/000580.html > > > Apart from "never reply to patches via webmail", does anyone know a > workaround? > > Cheers > ---Dave > > ----- Forwarded message from Dave Martin <dave.mar...@linaro.org> ----- > > MIME-Version: 1.0 > Received: by 10.52.19.176 with HTTP; Wed, 21 Mar 2012 08:31:28 -0700 (PDT) > In-Reply-To: <20120321153006.ga2...@linaro.org> > References: <20120321153006.ga2...@linaro.org> > Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2012 15:31:28 +0000 > Delivered-To: dave.mar...@linaro.org > Message-ID: > <ca+wbfdezdj3j8zsumjz4bky6c6dhdgjvnawxfdfin7-jkrs...@mail.gmail.com> > Subject: Re: Gmail test > From: Dave Martin <dave.mar...@linaro.org> > To: Dave Martin <dave.mar...@linaro.org> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 > Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable > > Can Gmail do it ... ?? > Come on! > > On Wed, Mar 21, 2012 at 3:30 PM, Dave Martin <dave.mar...@linaro.org> wrote: >> two spaces >> >> preformatted >> text >> is a pain > > > > -- > Dave Martin <dave.mar...@linaro.org> > Linaro Kernel Working Group > > -- > http://www.linaro.org/ -- Open source software for ARM SoCs > > http://www.facebook.com/pages/Linaro > http://twitter.com/#!/linaroorg > http://www.linaro.org/linaro-blog/ > > ----- End forwarded message ----- > > _______________________________________________ > linaro-dev mailing list > linaro-dev@lists.linaro.org > http://lists.linaro.org/mailman/listinfo/linaro-dev -- Joey STANFORD Engineering Program Manager Office: +1-303-800-6609 http://www.linaro.org/ Open source software for ARM SoCs _______________________________________________ linaro-dev mailing list linaro-dev@lists.linaro.org http://lists.linaro.org/mailman/listinfo/linaro-dev
