Re: [Evolution] Plain Text patch White Space damaged ?

[Joakim Tjernlund <Joakim Tjernlund infinera com>]

On Tue, 2020-11-03 at 14:01 +0100, Milan Crha via evolution-list wrote:
> On Tue, 2020-11-03 at 13:34 +0100, Joakim Tjernlund via evolution-list
> wrote:
> > I also saved the mail as mbox and had the same result, no TABs
>
>         Hi,
> that means the source message doesn't have tabs there. When I open your
> second link [2] (I've no idea what the first link was about, because
> there didn't seem to be any tab used, even I could overlook it there),
> then even the browser shows the whitespace (which look like a good
> candidate for a tab) as spaces. Try to select it.
>
> Nonetheless, I tried it here and I see that the .mbox file does use
> tabs as expected, both in a sent message and in a Draft message, it's
> the UI part of the Evolution to present tabs as spaces in the
> text/plain version of the message (it does not do that for the HTML
> version). Thus it looks like Evolution misinterprets tabs when
> converting plain text into an HTML form.

https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/evolution/-/issues/1206

> Would you mind to file a bug about that, please? [1] It can be in the
> evolution-data-server, because the code to convert plain text into the
> HTML is there.