[Python-checkins] Black boxes on subject column

Hirokazu Yamamoto ocean-city at m2.ccsnet.ne.jp
Sun Dec 21 10:21:26 CET 2008


Nick Coghlan wrote:
> Hirokazu Yamamoto wrote:
>> Martin v. Löwis wrote:
>>>> Hello. Please look at attached image.png. This is snapshot of Mozilla
>>>> Thundirbird. There are black boxes on subject column.
>>>>
>>>> I'm not sure when this started. (Maybe after python-3000-checkins
>>>> were merged?) Thank you.
>>> I think this is a bug in your email reader. In Icedove (which is fairly
>>> similar), it displays fine. If I look at the message source, I see that
>>> the Subject line is broken into two lines, with leading space in the
>>> second line. I think this is technically allowed.
>>>
>>> AFAICT, this always happened. For example, if you look at
>>>
>>> http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-checkins/2008-August.txt.gz
>>>
>>> you'll see that the subject of 20080801191123.D7EE61E4012 at bag.python.org
>>> is also broken into multiple lines.
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> Martin
>> Thank you for the info. :-)
> 
> It just be a client version thing - I'm a Thunderbird user as well, and
> 2.0.0.18 on Kubuntu doesn't have a problem with the line breaks (it just
> drops them).
> 
> Cheers,
> Nick.

I'm using same version on windows. (version 2.0.0.18 (20081105))
Maybe platform specific issue or setting issue?


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