From: Henrik Enberg <henrik.enberg@telia.com>
Cc: ding@gnus.org
Subject: Re: Gnus does not format my spam correctly!
Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2005 09:18:09 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87ll9fsn9a.fsf@rocksteady.printf.se> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <874qg5m8qf.fsf@codesourcery.com> (Zack Weinberg's message of "Mon, 21 Feb 2005 22:03:52 -0800")
Zack Weinberg <zack@codesourcery.com> writes:
> 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.
Emacs doesn't seem to do colum lineup very well. If you download
<http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/ucs/examples/UTF-8-demo.txt>, and look
at the excerpt from La poetry on The Romance of The Three Kingdoms",
you'll probably see that something's wrong there too.
--
Vaya Con Satan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-02-23 8:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-02-22 6:03 Zack Weinberg
2005-02-22 8:56 ` Daniel Pittman
2005-02-23 0:28 ` Miles Bader
2005-02-23 2:04 ` Katsumi Yamaoka
2005-02-22 9:38 ` Reiner Steib
2005-02-22 23:57 ` Miles Bader
2005-02-23 3:15 ` Zack Weinberg
2005-02-23 8:18 ` Henrik Enberg [this message]
2005-02-23 8:34 ` Zack Weinberg
2005-02-23 15:14 ` Adam Duck
2005-02-24 0:50 ` Miles Bader
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