Re: Spacing out

[Frank Solensky <frank solensky org>]

On Sun, 2004-01-04 at 21:44, Frank Solensky wrote:
> Ximian Evolution uses Pango to display email message bodies.  When the
> body of a message includes consecutive spaces (U+0020), the rendering
> code converts all but one to a non-breaking space (U+00A0).  The problem
> that I'm running into is when reading an email message that includes
> either tables or ASCII art, both are often misaligned, sometimes badly
> (see also http://bugzilla.ximian.com/show_bug.cgi?id=47713).  As far as
> I've been able to chase this down within the rendering code, the display
> box for U+00A0 is often one pixel thinner and one pixel taller than
> U+0020 in many fixed-width fonts.

An update: the problem is limited to screen rendering.  A hard copy of a
similar message is aligned correctly.