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>>>>> "DC" == Dan Christensen <jdc@uwo.ca> writes:
DC> For several months I've also had a problem that when I reply to some
DC> messages, many of the space characters in the quoted text are replaced
DC> with underlines, although not the usual underline character.  For
DC> example, this is happening with the quoted text below.  I believe this
DC> often happens with nbsp characters in html messages.

DC> Can I get rid of this behaviour somehow?

Well, I wouldn't want an automated solution, lest I not know what is
going on. Imagine me, computer pro, sending bytes I was not aware of.

So I would run
shell-command-on-region  "uni2ascii -e" :
C-u M-| uni2ascii -e

Note as I don't have relatives constantly sending me nbsp's that I want
to quote, the above does not become a pain.

And me, computer pro, must not also read bytes I am not aware of, (at
least not in mail, HTML or not. Browsing actual web pages are a
different matter) hence I'll opt for the

(add-hook
 'gnus-article-mode-hook
 (lambda ()
   ;; Gnus sets it to nil in the article buffer locally.
   (setq nobreak-char-display t)))

solution mentioned, as I being a font dummy, better not mess more
intensely.