Spurious characters in forum posts with "code" delimiter

[jber]

Hi,

form time to time i see posts formatted in a crazy way, and it seems
to happend when one uses the "code" delimiter, though Preview mode looks fine.
Therefore I would like to make few experiments to figure out what is going on.

1. Typing directly in firefox 3.6.23/Linux, locale (LANG=en_US, all others =C)
on vasp-forum and wrapping with "code" from the first T to last 1

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Test
?Test
??1?1
??0?0
1?1

2. As above in Internet Explorer 9 / Windows 7

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Test
?Test
?1?1
?0?0
1?1

3. With edit option, copying the contents of 1 (which has already question marks),
and replacing the question marks with spaces manually

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Test
?Test
??1?1
??0?0
1?1

Point 3 shows that even if you try to edit the post and replace the spurious
characters you get them back. Another problem is that if your code section
starts with a space it get's an additional question mark.

This is illustrated by the example below.
The second line is originally indented by only one space:

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Test
?Test

As far as I know vasp expects formatted input in at least KPOINT and POSCAR files (maybe more), so a reliable (i.e. without any change in formatting or line breaking)
way of sharing the contents of those files is necessary. Is it what the code
delimiter could be used for (if working)?
<span class='smallblacktext'>[ Edited ]</span>

[jber]

Here is what i mean that vasp expects formatted input.
http://cms.mpi.univie.ac.at/vasp/vasp/POSCAR_file.html
says "only the first character on the line is significant"