From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1761679AbXGFEGo (ORCPT ); Fri, 6 Jul 2007 00:06:44 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752001AbXGFEGi (ORCPT ); Fri, 6 Jul 2007 00:06:38 -0400 Received: from smtp2.linux-foundation.org ([207.189.120.14]:49386 "EHLO smtp2.linux-foundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751342AbXGFEGh (ORCPT ); Fri, 6 Jul 2007 00:06:37 -0400 Date: Thu, 5 Jul 2007 21:06:00 -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: <200707052340.42226.dtor@insightbb.com> Message-ID: References: <200707050111.43327.dtor@insightbb.com> <200707052340.42226.dtor@insightbb.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=us-ascii Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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 " " 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