[U-Boot] Thunderbird bug (was PATCH-add "0X" hexadecimal prefix to simple_strtoul)

[Reinhard Meyer]

Dear Chris Moore,
> Hi,
>
> Me again.
>
> Le 10/02/2011 07:16, Chris Moore a écrit :
>> Hi,
>>
>> Le 09/02/2011 22:17, Scott Wood a écrit :
>>> On Wed, 9 Feb 2011 07:40:44 +0100
>>> Albert ARIBAUD<albert.aribaud at free.fr>    wrote:
>>>
>>>> Le 09/02/2011 07:19, Chris Moore a écrit :
>>>>> I also noticed this in some of my (rare) posts.
>>>>> I am using TB 3.1.5.
>>>>> I am too ashamed to admit my OS ;-)
>>>>>
>>>>> A nonsense test case written with correct spacing: a = (b>    (c>>    1))&&
>>>>> ((d<    ((e&    1)<<    1)));
>>>>> If you receive this correctly then please excuse me for the noise :(
>>>> Received correctly. :)
>>>>
>>>> In Rob's case I am not sure that the issue is due to TB eating selected
>>>> spaces upon reception; my own TB (3.1.7), using ^U to display the raw
>>>> message from Rob, shows missing spaces are actually in what was sent,
>>>> and I think Wolfgang does not use TB at all.
>>> It's when quoting a message for a reply that Thunderbird does this mangling.
>>>
>> Right, that would seem to be this bug:
>> https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=448198
>> I have certainly encountered this one when quoting :(
>>
>> But there is also: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=597181
>> I wonder if I haven't run into this one too :(
>
> Note that my reply introduced the quoted text bug in my test case above :(

The space mangling even happens when one saves an e-mail (e.g. a patch).
I am glad we now have patchwork to download patches... Before I used an old
(theoretical insecure) thunderbird version to do that.

Best Regards,
Reinhard