Re: Gnus does not format my spam correctly!

[Reiner Steib <reinersteib+gmane@imap.cc>]

[ This is not a Gnus issue, AFAICS.
  Moving it to emacs-pretest-bugs, Mail-Followup-To set accordingly. ]

On Tue, Feb 22 2005, Zack Weinberg wrote:

> I get this sort of thing periodically as part of (what appears to be)
> Japanese-language spam:
>
> ┏━━━━┳━━━━┳━━━━┳━━━━━┳━━━━━┳━━━━━┓　
> ┃        　   ┃ 50万円  ┃100万円 ┃ 300万円    ┃ 500万円    ┃ 800万円    ┃　
> ┣━━━━╋━━━━╋━━━━╋━━━━━╋━━━━━╋━━━━━┫　
> ┃ １２回    ┃42,325円 ┃84,650円 ┃253,951円   ┃423,252円   ┃677,203円  ┃　
> ┣━━━━╋━━━━╋━━━━╋━━━━━╋━━━━━╋━━━━━┫　
> ┃ ２４回    ┃21,469円 ┃42,939円 ┃128,817円   ┃214,696円  ┃ 343,513円  ┃　
> ┣━━━━╋━━━━╋━━━━╋━━━━━╋━━━━━╋━━━━━┫　
> ┃ ４８回    ┃11,046円 ┃22,092円 ┃ 66,277円    ┃110,461円  ┃ 176,736円  ┃　
> ┣━━━━╋━━━━╋━━━━╋━━━━━╋━━━━━╋━━━━━┫　
> ┃ ８４回    ┃6,585円   ┃13,170円 ┃ 39,511円   ┃ 65,852円   ┃105,364円   ┃　
> ┣━━━━╋━━━━╋━━━━╋━━━━━╋━━━━━╋━━━━━┫　
> ┃１２０回   ┃4,806円   ┃ 9,612円 ┃ 28,836円   ┃ 48,061円   ┃ 76,898円    ┃　　
> ┗━━━━┻━━━━┻━━━━┻━━━━━┻━━━━━┻━━━━━┛　
>
> 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.

Bye, Reiner.
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