On Fri, 14 Jan 2011, Chuck Swiger wrote:
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]
Still doesn't have it :-).
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.
There's the double-blank-line quote-mangling.
I see quotes as ">>" in mutt and pine seems to what is responsible for
mangling them to "> > ".
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....
I don't believe in attachments either.
[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.
Surprisingly little FreeBSD mail have format=flowed. Today I have about
100 mails, mostly from FreeBSD mailing lists, and only 12 of the have it,
with 7 from just 2 people.
5 From: 3 FreeBSD committers, 7 From: 4 non-committers (?)
User-Agents: Mozilla/5.0 (5), Thunderbird 2.0.0.24 (1) Alpine 2.00 (4),
Opera Mail/11.00 (1), header not present (1)
Do you happen to know what changes tabs to hard \xa0's, and what prevents
this.
Bruce
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