On Sep 15, 2011, at 8:13 PM, Richard B. Gilbert wrote:
>> Defaults should be a "best recommendation for the widest range of reasonable 
>> circumstances"; they aren't mandatory, and they aren't something which 
>> cannot be adjusted for beneficial results, at least if you have some idea as 
>> what you are doing and validate the consequences of a change via measurement.
> 
> BTW, is your return key broken?  The paragraph above arrived here without 
> carriage returns.

No, my return key works fine.  $WORK obligates me to use a MUA which supports 
i18n well, by which I don't mean UTF-8 and ISO-Latin-1, but various UTF-16 
encodings like Big5/GBK and ISO-2022-JP.  Unfortunately, Mail.app no longer 
implements the format=flowed MIME Content-type.

Feel free to file your own bug reports with Apple and reference:

  rdar://8866049 Mail.app 4.x no longer generates format="flowed" content
  rdar://8866164 Mail.app: support external $EDITOR for message composition

Alternatively, one could leap ahead and use a 21st-century MUA which wraps text.

> Perhaps I should have said something like, "If you don't know what you are 
> doing, try the defaults."

Yes, that would have been an improvement over your original comment.

Regards,
-- 
-Chuck

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