Parv <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Anybody still interested in this, should not miss ... > > RFC 3676, The Text/Plain Format and DelSp Parameters, Feb 2004 > ftp://ftp.rfc-editor.org/in-notes/rfc3676.txt
Thanks for the tip. It's a shame that people (e.g., MSFT and its supporters) can't all abide by the traditional simple rules or that we can't all switch to a new standard with (SOME) features of modern markup languages, but such is life, and RFC 3676 seems like a good compromise which should cut down on a lot of acrimony. Let's all lobby our mail software developers to add support for 3676. > ... which supersedes RFC 2646. "What does that superseding > actually translates to?", i do not know. Like with all RFCs, there's only a hope that people will follow the new ones, which often have features to deal with the fact that some people won't, at least for a while. (E.g., see the last paragraph of the RFC.) BTW, does anybody understand why 3676 refers to 79-column screens? (In addition to conformance to [RFC-2822], there is a historical need that all lines, even when displayed by a non-flowed-aware program, will fit in a standard 79- or 80-column screen without having to be wrapped. The limit is 78, not 79 or 80, because while 79 or 80 fit on a line, the last column is often reserved for a line-wrap indicator.) Anyone ever seen a 79-column screen width or know how common they are? I've never heard of one. (They obviously aren't talking about 80 minus one for a line-wrap indicator, but about 79 minus one.) _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
