A colleague emailed some JavaScript code. When I copied this code and
pasted it into a BBEdit window, the first character of one line
changed from a space to an ASCII 202.
I thought at first that the bad character was in the email message.
However, when I copied and pasted that character into the MacASCII
Display utility <http://www.synergycreations.com/freeware.html#ascii>,
it display as a SPACE.
I displayed the email message as raw source. Here's the problematic
line:
<p class=3DMsoNormal><span style=3D'font-size:11.0pt;font-
family:"Calibri",=
"sans-serif";
color:black'> var conversion_value =3D 0.75;<o:p></o:p></span>=
</p>
Note that the "var conversion_value" line starts with a non-breaking
space and a conventional space.
When I copy the text from the formatted mail message to the clipboard,
it appears that the two spaces become an ASCII 202 and 32. When I
paste the spaces into BBEdit, I get the untranslated ASCII in my text
window. On the other hand, when I paste into MacASCII Display, I get
two regular spaces. Although MacASCII Display's behavior may be
erroneous, it's just what I'd like BBEdit to do when I'm transferring
source code from email into a BBEdit window.
I'd like to avoid this problem in the future. I've checked BBEdit's
preferences, and I can't find a "translate 'rich' text to source code
text" option. Is this possible?
-- Ward
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