> Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2012 10:45:49 +0300 > From: Nadav Har'El <[email protected]> > Cc: Dotan Cohen <[email protected]>, [email protected], > [email protected] > > On Tue, Jun 26, 2012, Eli Zaretskii wrote about "Re: Linux HTML mail agent > with RTL and LTR paragraph explicit support": > > In a nutshell, a paragraph is delimited by hard newlines (which could > > be some sequence of characters such as CRLF, or something else, > > depending on the platform, the application, and the context) or by a > > special character u+2029 PARAGRAPH SEPARATOR. > > I think this phrase "depending on the platform, the application, and the > context" is exactly what bothered Shachar.
I don't think there's a real problem here, because the UBA refers to UAX#13, whose guidelines, if followed, cause all the possible newline sequences to be treated alike on the receiving end of the mail. > If someone writes a > plain-text mail and assumes that, say, an empty line separates > paragraphs, because this what works in his platform, and his > application, it is possible that in the receiver's application or > platform, this won't be recognized as a paragraph break. An empty-line paragraph separator is a superset of a newline as paragraph separator. So if the receiving MUA interprets each hard newline as paragraph separator, it will certainly interpret empty lines as such. So again, this is not a big problem in practice. _______________________________________________ Linux-il mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
