Stuart Ballard wrote:
> I admit that it is rare, but it does happen. x > 3 won't show up
> incorrectly in most cases, but if it just happens to be wordwrapped to x
>
>> 3 then that line will show up as a quotation.
>
> (I deliberately inserted a linebreak above for demonstration purposes.
> Since I don't think that 4.x sends f=f, I expect that the above line
> would be interpreted as a quotation)
Yes, this does come out as quotation. But I think, users will notice
that something went wrong.
> In about a year of using this display format, I've seen perhaps a couple
> of dozen messages having at least one line wrongly bolded.
You are speaking about 4.x? Note that Mozilla's recognizer is better.
> unless the user knows that his client is using > to
> indicate quoting, he has no way to know that the missing symbol is a >.
But he will notice that something is wrong and ask back or so. I don't
think, the example you gave would be anyhow misinterpreted in a bad way.
> And we're trying to eliminate the need for people to know that > is used
> for quoting).
Yes.
