[Info-vax] VMS-based InfoServer

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On Aug 4, 7:34 pm, VAXman-  @SendSpamHere.ORG wrote:
> As far as I am concerned, DCL is text.  There's no need to convert it
> to a usenet hostile and non-standard encoding.  Period.

Last year, I studied how Google Groups codes messages for transmission
over Usenet. I found that Google Groups uses pure 7-bit ASCII to code
messages whenever possible. In other words, when there is no need to
use a non-standard encoding, Google Groups does not use one.

The offending message, however, was not representable with pure 7-bit
ASCII. There was a non-breaking space character in the text.

Naturally, one wonders who put a non-breaking space character in a
text which was otherwise representable with pure 7-bit ASCII. Google
uses NBSP to code space characters when you enter a row of spaces
(more than one space). This is a hint to the reader's terminal not to
collapse or wrap within the row of spaces.