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Re: format=flowed : why not use HTML?

1998-09-01 07:13:19
On Mon, 31 Aug 1998 19:32:16 PDT, you said:
Before I'd be willing to support a proposed standard last call on
format=flowed, I'd want to make sure there's strong language discouraging
the use of quoted-printable with it, and that we've had a reasonable

OK.. is the *exact* problem the interaction with QP?  Would dropping
to Base64 fix it?  Should we instead have strong language saying what
MUST be done to support format=flowed correctly if using (for instance)
ISO8859-4?

I have to rate as show-stopper any proposal that doesn't permit correct
operation with ISO8859-x.  I'd even be tempted to say that it has to deal
with RFC1556, except that's only "Informational".

Acceptable:  List of additional 'MUST' and 'SHOULD' items for use with
QP and/or non-ASCII text, which may result in extra hoops to jump through
for the MUA author.

Unacceptable: Language that implies this is only usable with English.

-- 
                                Valdis Kletnieks
                                Computer Systems Senior Engineer
                                Virginia Tech

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