From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1760794AbXGEXJg (ORCPT ); Thu, 5 Jul 2007 19:09:36 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1760981AbXGEXJT (ORCPT ); Thu, 5 Jul 2007 19:09:19 -0400 Received: from smtp2.linux-foundation.org ([207.189.120.14]:39153 "EHLO smtp2.linux-foundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1760775AbXGEXJS (ORCPT ); Thu, 5 Jul 2007 19:09:18 -0400 Date: Thu, 5 Jul 2007 16:09:10 -0700 (PDT) From: Linus Torvalds To: Dmitry Torokhov cc: Andrew Morton , LKML Subject: Re: [git pull][resend] Input updates for 2.6.22-rc7 In-Reply-To: <200707050111.43327.dtor@insightbb.com> Message-ID: References: <200707050111.43327.dtor@insightbb.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org [ Ok, pulled. However, it's time for another installment of "Flame that stupid mail client", because this isn't the first time this bit me ] On Thu, 5 Jul 2007, Dmitry Torokhov wrote: > > Please consider pulling from: > >         git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dtor/input.git for-linus There's somethign wrong with your emails, and it's very irritating. I cannot just cut-and-paste the whole line, because your tabs and spaces aren't tabs and spaces, they are some horrible abomination. What _looks_ like a tab above, when I save it and look at it with "od", it shows it true nasty life: it's not a tab, and it's not even eight spaces, it's four copies of the byte sequence '\302\240 ' ('\xC2\xA0\x20'), ie some horrid nasty three-byte sequence where one character is a space, and the previous two characters are some utf-8 abomination. I have no idea what kind of crap you use to generate it, and quite frankly, I don't want to know. I just want it to stop, so that when I cut-and-paste, I don't get random UTF-8 characters that just *look* like spaces but don't act like it, and cause my shell to very reasonably whine about the result. I think the "c2 a0" character is the utf-8 representation of a   (non-breaking space), but: - you are damn well sending text - it's followed by a regular space, so it's stupid - please don't do it. It says your user-agent is "Kmail", and maybe there is some way to fix it. And if kmail is correct, please make a bug-report to the kmail people. Sending hidden invisible utf-8 crap that looks like space, but doesn't act like it, is just damn impolite by kmail. I assume you weren't even aware of the random crud you are sending out? Linus