On Thu, 2001-11-15 at 16:53, Dave Euser wrote: > Just a few thoughts on this: > You could assume that any characters marking a quotation will be non > alphanumeric (makes some things simpler). > But this brings up other issues: > 1) how to recognize a single line being quoted (ie the original > message has only one line). I would assume that you would have to have > 2+ lines to make a valid assumption that the character(s) you're > looking at are a quotation marker, and not actually part of the text > 2) what happens if the original message has some kind of list: > eg - item 1 > - item 2 > - item 3 > This could easily be interpreted as a quotation marker. How to > distinguish?
You can't make the assumption that the quote marker will be non-alphanumeric. Emacs, for example has this nasty habbit of quoting with, for example: Euser> this is quoting what Dave Euser said. That contains alpha-numeric characters. > > Definitely not a simple problem....it might come to the point of > a) not doing anything at all....leave things as-is > b) make certain assumptions, causing some mis-quoted messages This is what we currently do > c) create a list of standard quotation markers and work from that list There is only 1 standard way, and that is "> " which is also specified by an internet standards draft. Jeff _______________________________________________ evolution maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/evolution
