From: Hans-Bernhard Broeker <broeker AT physik DOT rwth-aachen DOT de>
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Subject: Re: strange character in the source code
Date: 14 Nov 2002 13:33:42 GMT
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Tonu Aas <tonu AT ids DOT ee> wrote:
>> It quite certainly isn't.  0xa0 has nothing to do with newlines.

> Maybe it is some useful character in other language.  For example a'
> And why you assume that all people using US character set ?

I don't.  But the OP noted that this 0xa0 always occured in conjuntion
with SPACE characters.  A mail-client that inserted an a-accent-aigu or
whatever letter in front of spaces would be even more broken than
what I assumed.  I.e. I gave that mailer some benefit of the doubt...
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Hans-Bernhard Broeker (broeker AT physik DOT rwth-aachen DOT de)
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