From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: gaetan.leurent@ens.fr (=?iso-8859-1?Q?Ga=EBtan?= LEURENT) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Gnus not escaping NBSP and soft-hyphen Date: Tue, 21 Jun 2005 21:21:46 +0200 Message-ID: References: <200506212138.47101.pogonyshev@gmx.net> Reply-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1119383209 24867 80.91.229.2 (21 Jun 2005 19:46:49 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 21 Jun 2005 19:46:49 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Jun 21 21:46:47 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DkohL-0002QM-OK for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 21 Jun 2005 21:46:16 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Dkonp-0007M6-Ka for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 21 Jun 2005 15:52:57 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DkoWi-0000Zm-A3 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 21 Jun 2005 15:35:17 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DkoWU-0000Sj-9p for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 21 Jun 2005 15:35:02 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DkoWT-0000PZ-VZ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 21 Jun 2005 15:35:02 -0400 Original-Received: from [129.199.96.40] (helo=nef2.ens.fr) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1DkoMZ-0001D0-JP for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 21 Jun 2005 15:24:48 -0400 Original-Received: from clipper.ens.fr (clipper-gw.ens.fr [129.199.1.22]) by nef2.ens.fr (8.13.2/1.01.28121999) with ESMTP id j5LJLk6U038572 ; Tue, 21 Jun 2005 21:21:46 +0200 (CEST) X-Envelope-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-Received: from (leurent@localhost) by clipper.ens.fr (8.13.1/jb-1.1) X-Authentication-Warning: clipper.ens.fr: leurent set sender to gaetan.leurent@ens.fr using -f Original-To: Paul Pogonyshev X-Start-Date: Tue, 21 Jun 2005 21:03:02 +0200 X-Spook: 2600 Magazine industrial intelligence SWAT event security Rubin FTS2000 Bellcore CDC strategic kilo class advisors White House Kosovo David John Oates SAFE In-Reply-To: <200506212138.47101.pogonyshev@gmx.net> (Paul Pogonyshev's message of "Tue, 21 Jun 2005 21:38:47 +0300") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (usg-unix-v) X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-1.5.10 (nef2.ens.fr [129.199.96.32]); Tue, 21 Jun 2005 21:21:46 +0200 (CEST) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:39245 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:39245 Paul Pogonyshev wrote on 21 Jun 2005 20:38:47 +0200: > I don't know if it is a bug or a feature, but why would you possibly want > to see non-breaking spaces in your messages? I sort of want to read my > mail, not investigate the typographic peculiarities in it. Well, I guess it's not a common situation, but I read some local newsgroups where part of the game is to impersonate one-another. As it's in French, some users use NBSP before double punctuation marks (':', ';', '!', '?' -- in French typography they are supposed to be preceded by a thin space) and it's a nice way to detect impersonations. > I'd say it makes perfect sense to not escape special characters in text > meant to be read and hardly ever edited. Yes, that would be nice, but it doesn't seem to be case today. Those special characters are escaped in Help buffers, and in Gnus Summary ... --=20 Ga=EBtan LEURENT