Re: [css3-text] Tab U+0009 expansions to 8 spaces (was New WD of CSS Text Level 3 from timeless on 2011-05-08 (www-style@w3.org from May 2011)

From: timeless <timeless@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 8 May 2011 05:52:04 +0300
To: Koji Ishii <kojiishi@gluesoft.co.jp>
Cc: Xaxio Brandish <xaxiobrandish@gmail.com>, W3C style mailing list <www-style@w3.org>
Message-ID: <BANLkTik9UerD6YaSkFDaH2hMX8zLNTobnw@mail.gmail.com>

On Sat, Feb 19, 2011 at 1:39 PM, Koji Ishii <kojiishi@gluesoft.co.jp> wrote:
> Authors who want more precise controls should expand to appropriate spaces by scripts, or use other controls to format lines than <pre> tag.
>
> Does this sound reasonable?

not really. authors might be embedding things like <patches> which
need to have tab characters. these characters need to be able to
safely be copied out into editors and shells.

this is used heavily by programmers when visiting pastebins.

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