[Info-vax] Open Source on OpenVMS - A Progress Report

[Phillip Helbig---remove CLOTHES to reply]

In article <G86dnWQgCeAv4kHXnZ2dnUVZ_hOdnZ2d at giganews.com>, "Richard B.
Gilbert" <rgilbert88 at comcast.net> writes: 

> The second of two consecutive space characters will be encoded as "=A0".

Yes.

> I have no idea why or even which mailers exhibit this behavior.  

Maybe to prevent line breaks.

> For 
> example I just typed two consecutive spaces following a period because 
> that's the way I learned to type English text.  

Same here.

> For some mail programs 
> this will be a problem, for others, not!

If I type 7-bit printable US ASCII, there is no reason anyone should 
encode it.