Extra spaces in text files in cygwin
gmarsha11
gary.marshall@hp.com
Tue Jun 10 23:13:00 GMT 2008
I used the backticks to specify the command I used at the command line. When
I type that command, I get the contents of the file with spaces before each
character (yes, the spaces appear to come before each character).
I am installing additional fonts as was suggested earlier.
gmarsha11 wrote:
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> Brian Dessent wrote:
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>> gmarsha11 wrote:
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>>> then, `cat abc.txt` returns
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>>> T h i s i s a b c f i l e
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>>> Anyone know what might cause this?
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>> What do you mean by "[backtick] returns"? Can you paste a full example
>> testcase? What is the file's encoding? If it's a unicode file with a
>> UTF-16 encoding then you would expect something like the above,
>> depending on how you're interpreting the output.
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>> Brian
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