On Thu 21 Nov 2024 at 10:11:56 (+0700), Max Nikulin wrote: > On 20/11/2024 22:20, Greg Wooledge wrote: > > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > > > On Wed, Nov 20, 2024 at 10:13:20 -0500, eben wrote: > > > > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed > > > > This line has one trailing space. > [...] > > This line has two leading and two trailing spaces. > > I think, format=flowed is important here. It may be disabled in > Thunderbird, but it may interact with line width limit and in some > cases it might be necessary to explicitly wrap lines ([Ctrl+R] for > selection). Flowed format allows readers to rewrap paragraphs to > smaller width (unfortunately Thunderbird rewraps even to fill really > wide windows).
AFAICT, Gene's post: https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2024/11/msg00522.html looks like a well-formed f=f post, complete with signature. The web version referenced here shows flowing in action when you change the font size, /but/ it does strip the space in the signature separator. John's reply: https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2024/11/msg00535.html has interpreted Gene's f=f text, and he reports that signature stripping worked. However, the post itself uses very long f=fixed lines, making no attempt to reflow the text into shorter lines. Gene's response: https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2024/11/msg00537.html appears to do everything correctly, reflowing the quote and flowing Gene's text. Assuming it stripped the signature automatically, Gene's version wins. Eben also replied to the first post with: https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2024/11/msg00555.html but TB's action here show a very odd interaction between f=f and quoted-printable. Gene's text is reflowed, but to a linelength that causes most lines to be split a few characters from the end by q-p, and these lines are now written as f=fixed (no space at the end). Eben's text is ambiguous, but I suspect the last paragraph was typed on two lines. So my guess is that Eben's entire post is stripped of trailing spaces, likely by a q-p encoder that enforces a 74-char line length but is unaware of both format=flowed text and signature separators. Cheers, David.
