Re: Spacing out

[Noah Levitt <nlevitt columbia edu>]

I believe evolution uses gtkhtml, which doesn’t use pango in
the usual way. Perhaps you should check if it’s a gtkhtml
bug?

Noah

On Mon, Jan 05, 2004 at 13:08:33 -0500, Frank Solensky wrote:
> 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.