In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
  Ben Bucksch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Wilfried Kramer wrote:
> 
> > Und zu dem Vorteil bzw. dem strittigen Punkt: Was passiert denn mit
> > User-Agents, die das nicht unterst�tzen?
> 
> (Translation: As for the advantage or the discussed point: What happens 
> with UA which don't support it.)
> 
> They will see trailing spaces after the flowing lines, as you can "see" 
> with this very post. On-the-wire, the lines are wrapped at 72 columns or 
> so, and this is what ordinary UAs see, but UAs supporting it basically 
> ignore the linebreaks which follow a trailing space.

For UA that support it that isn't the whole story, for unquoted text
the linebreaks are simply ignored, for quoted text not only is the line
break ignored, but so are the leading quote prefixes (as long as they
match the regex ">* ?").  Well, not so much ignore, as considered part
of the same "block", what the supporting UA does with the block is a

-- 
J.B. Moreno

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