Joseph Brennan writes: > Why the tab?
I would suppose because it looks better in character-oriented display. On most terminals, a tab will expand to 8 spaces, making the fact that the header is folded very obvious. It won't hurt anything if you change it to space. This isn't going to be a true fix, though, because IIRC Mailman *does* insert that space, and it will remain as a doubled space in the recipient's MUA display. Note that in recent versions of the standard, the handling of FWS has been clarified: the proper way to unfold is to remove the CRLF, and change nothing else. This implies that the proper way to fold is to find some whitespace and insert a CRLF (and nothing else) before that whitespace. Not that it matters, but I think that graphical MUAs are (as usual) broken here. They are going to reformat unstructured fields anyway (treating the single logical line as a paragraph, and wrapping long ones), so they might as well do the sane thing and interpret all whitespace as merely a single word separator, then wrap that. This is almost never a mistake in my experience. Not even Pythonistas expect whitespace to be significant *within* a line! :-) ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://wiki.list.org/x/AgA3 Security Policy: http://wiki.list.org/x/QIA9 Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/ Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/archive%40jab.org
