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[John Arbash Meinel <john.meinel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 5/25/2012 8:18 AM, Martin Pool wrote:
> On 25 May 2012 15:50, William Grant <william.grant@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> On 25/05/12 15:46, Martin Pool wrote:
>>> How is the spacing wrong? I typed 2 leading spaces on the command lines.
>>
>> Well, something's odd with the spacing in the original message as
>> forwarded inline in your first message. The first command has two
>> leading spaces, the other two have three.
> 
> I don't think there's ever been a requirement the spacing be
> consistent? On a previous attempt it was, and that also failed.
> 
>> I suspect Gmail may be doing bad things.
> 
> I think it's changing leading spaces entered in the text field to
> unicode A0 <http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/A0/>
> "NO-BREAK SPACE".  Maybe Launchpad could interpret them as whitespace
> rather than requiring exactly space or tab.

That certainly sounds reasonable. You could arguably use the unicode
"\s" regex match, which would probably catch a few more of them (as long
as you don't match on newlines.)

John
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