On Jan 14, 2011, at 2:12 AM, Bruce Evans wrote: >> On a good day, my MUA sends "Content-type: text/plain; format=flowed" and >> should contain line breaks following the 80-character-per-line Usenet >> conventions, which modern MUAs might well reassemble based upon the user's >> window size. If it is being re-interpreted after transmission by MTAs, >> mailing-list MIME filters, or similar, well, that lies beyond my control. > > Strangely, my MUA is sending format=flowed, etc., but mails received > from you don't have it. So when I reply to you and Cc me, then there > are enough newlines in the now-doubly-quoted original in the Cc.
You're right. After checking, it seems like Mail.app stopped emitting format=flowed around 10.6.3, and $REALJOB requirements mean I'm stuck using it as I need to deal with localized text from many languages frequently. [1] > format=flowed apparently even fixes up the quotes, so there are enough > quotes too. But I don't like this. Letting the MUA change the format > will mangle source code, diffs and some types of quotes. Well, source code, diffs, and such could be attached as MIME enclosures, which will insulate them from quote-based reformatting. Unfortunately, unless one is careful with the content-types used, the FreeBSD mailing list software might decide to strip them.... Regards, -- -Chuck [1]: Mozilla's Thunderbird does fine for the Latin-1 families & UTF-8 encodings, but it doesn't handle UTF-16 text or attachments (ja-JP / ISO-2022-JP or zh-CN & zh-TW in Big5 or GBK) correctly. _______________________________________________ freebsd-net@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-net To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-net-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
