On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 2:57 PM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> But in the longer term, I think we should find what MUA causes this
> breakage and yell at them. It might be some mail relays, but I am not sure
> where these come from. I often see alternating real whitespace and nbsp
> in "> " indented quotes.
In this case, it was
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8
Content-Disposition: inline
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15)
so there was nothing odd in the MUA. And everything I have (gmail in
web browser, less, gnome-terminal) treats the nbsp as a regular space,
so it doesn't show up as any inverted block or anything like that for
me until I tried to compile it.
It could easily have been there in the patch originally and wasn't
compile-tested. On some keyboard layouts, AltGr+space gives a nbsp.
Linus
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