* Trailing whitespace stripping
@ 2003-10-30 16:23 Reiner Steib
2003-10-30 17:08 ` era
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From: Reiner Steib @ 2003-10-30 16:23 UTC (permalink / raw)
Cc: belanger
Hi,
in a message posted to emacs-devel by Jay Belanger, whitespace was
removed from attached patch files (text/x-patch) [1]. He wrote, that
he could reproduce it with "-q --no-site-file" [2].
In my tests, I observed, that in the normal message text, trailing
spaces are removed, if there are no other characters on the line
(i.e. "^ +$" --> ""). [3,4] (But I couldn't reproduce it for
text/x-patch attachments.)
I think it should be possible to send both, *inline* patches and
text/* attachments, without any whitespace stripping, because some
mailing lists (or list software) doesn't allow attachments at all.
I couldn't find anything related to this in the Gnus (and Message)
sources. Any ideas?
Bye, Reiner.
[1] http://article.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:17529
<news:m31xsxjc45.fsf@truman.edu>
[2] http://article.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:17553
<news:m3wuaoghog.fsf@truman.edu>
[3] http://article.gmane.org/gmane.test:1035
<news:v9llr4w66m.fsf@marauder.physik.uni-ulm.de>
[4] http://article.gmane.org/gmane.test:1036
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2003-10-30 16:23 Trailing whitespace stripping Reiner Steib
@ 2003-10-30 17:08 ` era
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From: era @ 2003-10-30 17:08 UTC (permalink / raw)
On Thu, 30 Oct 2003 17:23:10 +0100, Reiner Steib
<4.uce.03.r.s@nurfuerspam.de> posted to gmane.emacs.gnus.general:
> I think it should be possible to send both, *inline* patches and
> text/* attachments, without any whitespace stripping, because some
> mailing lists (or list software) doesn't allow attachments at all.
Isn't one of the purposes of Quoted-Printable encoding is to allow for
an unambiguous and transport-safe way to preserve trailing spaces?
Merely making sure you don't strip them when you send them is hardly
sufficient (as in, adequately robust) in any event.
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