Peter Lairo wrote:
> copying and pasting text into mail and forms currently does some
> very strange things:
>
> 1. copying text from another mail or from a web page pasts it a
> preformat" into the body of my mail. This causes the formatting to
> be all screwed up (inserts hard returns, font is different, etc).
> Pasted text should always be pasted as pure text or at least as
> "body" formatted text.
>
> 2. Editig pasted text in compose window by removing hard returns
> causes the text text to extend WAY beyond the visible window to
> the right. Then, when the text is sent it all seems wrapped OK;
> even hard returns i had inserted are suddenly gone. All this is
> horribly non-intuitive. There needs to be a much better way to
> deal with hard and soft returns in email.
>
> 3. It seems that emails are not consistent when dealing with *soft
> returns*. The user should be able to type a long text and the text
> would wrap depending on his window width. When the mail arrives at
> the recipient, the text should then wrap according to the
> recipient's window width. Soft returns *need* to be retained in
> the document, whether it is a HTML mail or text mail. The current
> behaviour is irratic (most email programs have this problem).
>
> 4. Character Coding is confusing and often doesn't work.
>
> I live in Germany wher german umlauts are used (a, o u with dots
> on them - ä, ö, ü). My wife uses NC 4.7 and i use mozilla
> (20010125). We both use the Compuserve IMAP server. I receive mail
> at work through our company server. When she sends me an email
> with umlauts, it allways arrives garbled (ä&).
>
> This should not be. There should be one standard character set
> that includes the western alphabet and all western countries'
> accents. This character set cannot be larger than 200-400
> characters and would therefore be easily manageable by any modern OS.
Re: cut & paste:
this is a very true statment for both linux & solaris-sparc,
hope you file a bug report !!
