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For "mpm" and other Google Groupers: Better (whitespace) posting technique (was: AT89C52 counterfeits)

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>> >[...]That explains it.[...]

If you DO NOT click on the *Reply* at the bottom of the post but instead click on **More Options** then on THAT **Reply** link,

*that* option treats blockquoted whitespace properly

--instead of putting a ? in place of a   .[1]

You don't end up with weird looking posts like:

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(Of course, if you would trim out other people's sigs, there would be a lot less to go wrong.)

Note: This is ESPECIALLY IMPORTANT when posting from Google Groups and blockquoting ASCII art. =2E =2E [1] Google's left hand doesn't know what its right hand is doing.

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JeffM
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Thanks Jeff, that's a good tip. BUT, isn't HTML like   itself inappropriate in newsgroups anyhow?

Cheers, James Arthur

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James Arthur

James Arthur wrote:

8-)

It's not the *posters* that are putting that in. Again, it's about the way Google Groups formats ASCII posts so they can be displayed on their *Web* site.

When the **in-plain-sight** Reply link is used (which I advise **against** using until they fix it--if ever) Google does a sloppy job of converting *back* from the only method that allows instances of a poster's consecutive whitespaces to be displayed in HTML (i.e.  ).

Google gets it right

*IF* you use the Reply link that takes one additional click to get to.
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JeffM

Gotcha. Will do.

Cheers, James

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James Arthur

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