Paul wrote:

> ralph wrote:
>  > Hi Ken,
>  >
>  > > - You could use format=flowed email; paragraph lines that you want to
>  > >   autoflow properly have to end in a SP CRLF sequence.  That is defined
>  > >   in RFC 2646.
>  >
>  > Obsoleted by RFC 3676.  https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc3676
>  >
>  > From a quick glance, it insists ‘>’-quoting has no spaces.
>  >
>  >     >>> This is quoted three deep.
>  >
>  >     > > > This is only one deep.  The unquoted text starts ‘> > This’.
>
> So you're saying they created a new standard that completely ignores
> existing well-established practice, and makes the result less
> readable, to boot?  Well done.   Oh!  I see from the abstract that it
> also relies on trailing whitespace!  Clever.

I think that what Ken said about format=flowed from RFC 2646 (from 1999) was 
retained by RFC 3676 (in 2004).  Though that's based on a very quick glance.

I just added a quick test to show that repl followed by mhbuild do properly 
encode (RFC 2047) header field bodies.  So storing message files with UTF-8 
instead of 2047 encoding is fine from that standpoint, given that I use a UTF-8 
locale.  And grep-friendly.

David


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