And it came to pass that Holger Metzger wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Erik Meltzer wrote:
>
>> But what's so hard about wanting to *read* mail the way it
>> was sent, and *write* mail the way it will be sent? What's
>> so strange about wanting to see every line break, every
>> quote char precisely where it actually was typed, and
>> wanting to be able to control them completely in a reply?
>
>
> Believe it or not I myself prefer mail/news Mozilla/4 style.
> I even filed an RFE
> (http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=86607). You
> might want to vote for it or file an RFE yourself.
>
> Anyways..., the vertical bar might look strange to you, but
> it's not in any way altering the plaintext (the "source") to
> HTML. As I said before how plaintext is displayed varies
> from system to system, from program to program.
>
> Much more important conformity to standards.
>
> Let's look at Xnews, a reader that supposedly displays
> plaintext "as is". It doesn't have a clue about
> MIME-encoding. It sends out messages not caring about what
> kind of characters the body contains. People using Xnews
> don't know (because on their Windows PC with windows-1252
> the message displays fine) that as soon as they are using
> characters that are not part of us-ascii (for example � as
> in fianc�e), other readers (IMO all Unix readers) that look
> at the header first might be *very* confused about how to
> display the body.
>
But this is true of ANY mail/news client. Which is why
"special" characters are to be avoided inemailand news messages.
> Another example: tin. Tin with colors enabled displays
> plaintext very differently from the "source". *bold* in
> bold, /italic/ in italic, _underline_ underlined (and the *
> / _ will not be displayed). And tin is IMHO on of the best
> newsreaders ever.
>
> Displaying plaintext so that everyone sees the *same* is
> virtually impossible.
And is not the point. The only format that will force everyone
to see the same thing is .PDF
>
> But I agreee that Mozilla should be as flexible as possible
> in enabling/disabling settings.
That's all I'm asking for.
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