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spaces to   entities
If you do that, and it behaves any differently than a PRE tag, your browser is broken. Therefore, you're going through a lot of work for nothing.

I agree with another response in this thread... simply return a text/plain MIME type.

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Re^2: Formatting CGI script error messages
by shay (Beadle) on Nov 17, 2004 at 12:57 UTC

    Damn! Yes, you're quite right. But alternating spaces and   entities would work -- i.e. leave single spaces alone, but change pairs of spaces to "  ".

    Or is there any easier way to get "non-collapsing" spaces which are allowed to be broken across lines?

    - Steve

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