hanged CookHeaders to default to using space rather than tab as

continuation_ws when folding headers.

2 files changed, 6 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/Mailman/Handlers/CookHeaders.py b/Mailman/Handlers/CookHeaders.py
index 63e630cb..acb79166 100755
--- a/Mailman/Handlers/CookHeaders.py
+++ b/Mailman/Handlers/CookHeaders.py
@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ from Mailman import Utils
 from Mailman.i18n import _
 from Mailman.Logging.Syslog import syslog
 
-CONTINUATION = ',\n\t'
+CONTINUATION = ',\n '
 COMMASPACE = ', '
 MAXLINELEN = 78
 
@@ -52,7 +52,7 @@ def _isunicode(s):
 
 nonascii = re.compile('[^\s!-~]')
 
-def uheader(mlist, s, header_name=None, continuation_ws='\t', maxlinelen=None):
+def uheader(mlist, s, header_name=None, continuation_ws=' ', maxlinelen=None):
     # Get the charset to encode the string in. Then search if there is any
     # non-ascii character is in the string. If there is and the charset is
     # us-ascii then we use iso-8859-1 instead. If the string is ascii only
@@ -350,7 +350,7 @@ def prefix_subject(mlist, msg, msgdata):
         lines = str(subject).splitlines()
     else:
         lines = subject.splitlines()
-    ws = '\t'
+    ws = ' '
     if len(lines) > 1 and lines[1] and lines[1][0] in ' \t':
         ws = lines[1][0]
     msgdata['origsubj'] = subject
diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 603ab9be..975e53dd 100755
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -22,6 +22,9 @@ Here is a history of user visible changes to Mailman.
 
   Bug fixes and other patches
 
+    - Changed CookHeaders to default to using space rather than tab as
+      continuation_ws when folding headers.  (LP: #1505878)
+
     - Fixed the 'pidfile' path in the sample init.d script.  (LP: # 1503422)
 
     - Subject prefixing could fail to collapse multiple 'Re:' in an incomming