linux-kernel - Re: [git pull][resend] Input updates for 2.6.22-rc7

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Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.0.98.0707052101170.9434@woody.linux-foundation.org>
Date:	Thu, 5 Jul 2007 21:06:00 -0700 (PDT)
From:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@...ightbb.com>
cc:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [git pull][resend] Input updates for 2.6.22-rc7

On Thu, 5 Jul 2007, Dmitry Torokhov wrote:
> 
> I was not... The copy I got from LKML looks fine in Kmail, Gmail and
> MS Outlook.                           ^^^^^^^^^^

That's the problem.

It *looks* *fine*.

The "&nbsp" doesn't look any different from a regular space. There's no 
way to tell the difference. Except it doesn't *work* the same. You 
cut-and-paste it into a shell window, and that shell window will not 
consider a nbsp to be the same thing as a space.

And I don't really understand why Kmail would do something like that. They 
obviously do it on purpose, since the nbsp wasn't there originally, so 
they literally go do extra work to _corrupt_ the data they cut-and-paste. 
Why do it? Who knows. But it's really sad.

			Linus
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