lib/PublicInbox/View.pm | 2 +-

diff --git a/lib/PublicInbox/View.pm b/lib/PublicInbox/View.pm
index e1632b5bec319fa6667925e79f9d31d50d30df0e..6e4d17894ca3534f66ca0ac28a5ce803ab671eba 100644
--- a/lib/PublicInbox/View.pm
+++ b/lib/PublicInbox/View.pm
@@ -143,7 +143,7 @@ 	# Drop signatures
 	$s =~ s/^-- \n.*\z//ms and $$more = 'more...';
 
 	# kill any leading or trailing whitespace lines
-	$s =~ s/^[ \t]$//sgm;
+	$s =~ s/^\s*$//sgm;
 	$s =~ s/\s+\z//s;
 
 	if (length $s) {