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

[Richard B. Gilbert]

Phillip Helbig---remove CLOTHES to reply wrote:
> 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.
> 

I guess some people (or programs) don't need a reason!  I'm not going to 
get upset about an occasional "=A0" on my screen!  For those who do, why 
not write a little filter to remove this string from message text?