From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/59884 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Daniel Pittman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Gnus does not format my spam correctly! Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2005 19:56:23 +1100 Message-ID: <878y5hrn0o.fsf@enki.rimspace.net> References: <874qg5m8qf.fsf@codesourcery.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1109117393 12692 80.91.229.2 (23 Feb 2005 00:09:53 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2005 00:09:53 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ding-owner+M8425@lists.math.uh.edu Wed Feb 23 01:09:53 2005 Original-Received: from malifon.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.13] ident=mail) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1D3k66-0008Pu-Gr for ding-account@gmane.org; Wed, 23 Feb 2005 01:09:47 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu ident=lists) by malifon.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 1D3k8q-000883-00; Tue, 22 Feb 2005 18:12:36 -0600 Original-Received: from util2.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.23]) by malifon.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 1D3VvD-0006gV-00 for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Tue, 22 Feb 2005 03:01:35 -0600 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by util2.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1D3Vv8-0004ST-IC for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Tue, 22 Feb 2005 03:01:30 -0600 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2] helo=ciao.gmane.org) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1D3Vv7-0002av-00 for ; Tue, 22 Feb 2005 10:01:29 +0100 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1D3VrY-0001Xb-1a for ding@gnus.org; Tue, 22 Feb 2005 09:57:48 +0100 Original-Received: from 203-217-29-45.perm.iinet.net.au ([203.217.29.45]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 22 Feb 2005 09:57:48 +0100 Original-Received: from daniel by 203-217-29-45.perm.iinet.net.au with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 22 Feb 2005 09:57:48 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-To: ding@gnus.org Original-Lines: 25 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 203-217-29-45.perm.iinet.net.au User-Agent: Gnus/5.110003 (No Gnus v0.3) Emacs/21.3 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:yox3gKg8UW6dhFBgcAqXDUCS4Pk= X-Spam-Score: -4.8 (----) Precedence: bulk Original-Sender: ding-owner@lists.math.uh.edu X-MailScanner-From: ding-owner+m8425@lists.math.uh.edu X-MailScanner-To: ding-account@gmane.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:59884 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:59884 On 22 Feb 2005, Zack Weinberg wrote: > I get this sort of thing periodically as part of (what appears to be) > Japanese-language spam: [...] > The vertical bars were presumably intended to line up neatly, forming > a nice little table, but the spaces are too wide, or the horizontal > lines are too short, or both. Confusion over which characters are > double-wide and which are single? Are the fonts not really > fixed-width? Inquiring minds, &c. The most likely case: your Emacs selected a double-width font for the Asian characters, but a single-width font as your normal font. This is, basically, always the case, because it is really hard to represent far east language symbols in the same small space as you do normal characters. Regards, Daniel -- Although the Perl Slogan is There's More Than One Way to Do It, I hesitate to make 10 ways to do something. :-) -- Larry Wall in <9695@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV>