Herb Peyerl wrote:

> "Thomas Mueller" <tmueller@bluegrass.net>  wrote:
>  > Maybe all those ASCII-160 characters, which show as a with acute accent in
>  > extended US-ASCII as used by DOS and OS/2, confused the list server?  Maybe the
>  > list server didn't recognize that those ASCII-160 characters were really
>  > supposed to be spaces (ASCII-32)?
>
> How do you figure 160==32?  Is this some sort of new math?
>
> A space is a space. If it's a 160, then it's not a space.

First, there's no character 160 in ASCII (unless ASCII has been changed lately).
ASCII covers 0-127.  But in ISO8859-n, and in Unicode, there is a character
with the code 160, and that's a non-breaking space (e.g., for use in names like
Simon Peyton Jones, where the second space should be unbreakable).

    -- Lennart