On 23.03.2021 14:33, Thorsten wrote:
> On 23.03.2021 14:11, Cousin Ricky wrote:
>  > On 2021-03-21 4:27 AM (-4), Thorsten wrote:
>  >> On 22.03.2021 18:05, Cousin Ricky wrote:
>  >>


>  >> Extra space? Where?
>  >
>  > https://news.povray.org/60467377%241%40news.povray.org
>  >
>  > My first indent in the code excerpt is two spaces, but the Web view

> 
> Indeed, I can confirm this. I will see what is going on.

Ok, so it turns out there are really three spaces in the message. The 
reason is, well, Thunderbird. You can see it in Thunderbird using 
More->View Source. It implements an email extension on a new server. The 
extension is called "format=flowed" and it is known to cause problems 
when transmitting source code over email (and thus news messages as 
well: 
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/process/email-clients.html#email-clients

Just google "format=flowed thunderbird" (without quotes). You will find 
plenty of complaints about it ...

Thunderbird (which I am also using) apparently has bugs with handling 
soft and hand line breaks and the correct conversion process to a final 
message format. It basically inserts the spaces even for hard line 
breaks, which makes exactly no sense at all when posting source code 
(which it cannot know, of course). It is only by chance that it then 
doesn't soft wrap your code when displaying the message...

Sorry,
Thorsten

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