From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/59885 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Miles Bader Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Gnus does not format my spam correctly! Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2005 09:28:01 +0900 Message-ID: <87brac3ysu.fsf@tc-1-100.kawasaki.gol.ne.jp> References: <874qg5m8qf.fsf@codesourcery.com> <878y5hrn0o.fsf@enki.rimspace.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1109118405 15491 80.91.229.2 (23 Feb 2005 00:26:45 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2005 00:26:45 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ding-owner+M8426@lists.math.uh.edu Wed Feb 23 01:26:45 2005 Original-Received: from malifon.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.13] ident=mail) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1D3kMG-00023J-I0 for ding-account@gmane.org; Wed, 23 Feb 2005 01:26:28 +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 1D3kOI-0008Eb-00; Tue, 22 Feb 2005 18:28:34 -0600 Original-Received: from util2.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.23]) by malifon.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 1D3kOA-0008EV-00 for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Tue, 22 Feb 2005 18:28:26 -0600 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by util2.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1D3kO7-0001Vv-QT for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Tue, 22 Feb 2005 18:28:23 -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 1D3kO6-0006G4-00 for ; Wed, 23 Feb 2005 01:28:22 +0100 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1D3kKS-0001r5-WC for ding@gnus.org; Wed, 23 Feb 2005 01:24:37 +0100 Original-Received: from yokohama2-61-203-152-233.ap.0038.net ([61.203.152.233]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 23 Feb 2005 01:24:36 +0100 Original-Received: from miles by yokohama2-61-203-152-233.ap.0038.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 23 Feb 2005 01:24:36 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-To: ding@gnus.org Original-Lines: 20 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: yokohama2-61-203-152-233.ap.0038.net System-Type: i686-pc-linux-gnu Cancel-Lock: sha1:avkALXG5hvBJf7Y33Z12PGytIME= X-Spam-Score: -4.7 (----) Precedence: bulk Original-Sender: ding-owner@lists.math.uh.edu X-MailScanner-From: ding-owner+m8426@lists.math.uh.edu X-MailScanner-To: ding-account@gmane.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:59885 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:59885 Daniel Pittman writes: > The most likely case: your Emacs selected a double-width font for the > Asian characters, but a single-width font as your normal font. Actually that seems unlikely to be the reason: if you look at the text, the basic problem is that there are too many spaces -- even though Emacs uses "half-width" (from a CJK perspective) spaces, they're _still_ too wide. I expect what really happened is that the original creator's editor (well, probably "word processor") for some reason used a variable-width font for space characters, so they had to add lots of thin spaces to make everything line up. Us Emacs users, viewing the same text with "normal" spaces -- even half-width -- see the spaces portions as being too wide. -Miles -- Next to fried food, the South has suffered most from oratory. -- Walter Hines Page