At 2:18 AM -0700 8/18/98, Ian Bell wrote:
Paragraph-oriented text is restricted at the moment to non-compliant
MUAs abusing text/plain. As soon as there is a standard way of labelling
paragraph text, it will probably become much more common. Promotion of
format=flowed to format=fixed will then lead to broken display/reply
as in:
: ian: randy> } This paragraph has been quoted five times using
quoting conventions often seen. How will you display it correctly,
let alone reply and quote correctly: especially if the user wants to
split the paragraph in two?
Converting Format=flowed to Format=fixed is no problem, because the
lines are already wrapped and canonically quoted.
Converting Format=fixed to Format=Flowed is a different matter. It's
hard to do, but no worse than reformatting normal text/plain, which is
what happens now.