The following reply was made to PR bin/34048; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: David Laight <david@l8s.co.uk>
To: gnats-bugs@NetBSD.org
Cc: 
Subject: Re: bin/34048 (Flaws in German sysinst messages)
Date: Tue, 3 Oct 2006 07:42:51 +0100

 On Sat, Sep 30, 2006 at 12:55:02PM +0000, Christian Biere wrote:
 >  
 >  OT: Why are there two spaces after a period? I believe that's an
 >  emacsism and looks rather odd.
 
 It used to be a standard practise when using a typewriter.
 Quite when it became accectable to change the large inter-sentence gap
 to a very narrow one (3 fixed width chars to 2 narrow variable width ones)
 I don't know.
 
 	David
 
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