Re: special chars

[Rocco Rutte <pdmef@xxxxxxx>]

Hi,

* Thomas Roessler [07-03-19 11:54:36 +0100] wrote:

> I'd hope that this is a documentation bug (but haven't bothered to
> check), and that the documentation is meant to say "plain text".

Yepp, I sent a patch to fix it.

> There is no reason why format=flowed can't work with any character
> set that's a superset of ASCII.

Actually not even that. As I read RfC3676 (f=f updated for DelSp), the 
DelSp parameter was added for languages that don't use an ASCII superset 
and don't usually know the concept of a space as delimiter (between 
whatever).

That means that since mutt now has DelSp support, you can even flow 
Japanese or Chinese (I'm not really sure which of both) that don't have 
spaces like so:

  ABCD

could become

  AB
  CD

or even

  A
  B
  C
  D

I didn't see those kind of messages in the wild, but with latin1 users 
"abusing" the feature to break long URLs (typically generated by 
AppleMail, IIRC) it seems to work.

  bye, Rocco
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