On 01/31/2013 12:57 PM, Ludwig Hügelschäfer wrote:
On 31.01.13 21:23, Tilman Baumann wrote:
(...) Really a shame that text flow can not be preserved. I mean
it's not the 80's anymore where anyone really only had 80char
terminals.
This is a good objection, but a digital signature does not allow to
change a single bit. If any linebreak is inserted (or removed) after
creation of the signature it must be broken, that's in the nature of
things.
What's needed is an update to the standard so that PGP can validate the
message in its wrapped format, but still allow for the message to be
displayed with flowed text. Of course, this is easier said than done. :)
That's why only keeping to minimum standard (rewrap at 72) before
creation of the signature will keep it intact.
Personally, I find text with lines longer than about 80 chars hard to
read. I'm not alone: most newspapers also stick to this rule.
That was a great rule when most people were reading mail on devices that
all had pretty much the same characteristics. In the brave new world of
e-devices with many different sizes of screens, often with more than one
screen dimension on the same device (think of rotating a phone or tablet
from portrait to landscape mode) flowed text should be the default since
it maximizes the screen real estate, and avoids clunky formatting.
Doug
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