At 1998-10-26 08:22, Steve Dorner wrote:
Adding "format=flowed" means that long lines are to be treated as
paragraphs (eg, by wrapping them to the display width).
Right. My mistake.
My question more concerned the use of format=flowed over quoted-printable
given the proposal's emphasis on readability by the many non MIME-aware
or MIME-compliant MUAs currently in use. Having just perused the archive
it turns out it was partly answered by an earlier message:
At 1998-09-01 12:02, Randall Gellens wrote:
...
Or even
While Quoted-Printable encoding MUST be used when necessary to encode
non-US-ASCII characters, it SHOULD NOT be used unless required for such
uses; that is, if the SMTP server supports 8BITMIME, or the message
only contains US-ASCII characters, there is no need for
Quoted-Printable encoding.
The intent of Format=Flowed is to allow user agents to generate flowed
text which is non-obnoxious when viewed as pure Text/Plain; use of
Quoted-Printable hinders this and may cause Format=Flowed to be
rejected by end users.
...but I'd like to point out that quoted-printable may not be necessary
to encode non-US-ASCII, given UTF-7.
The question is, which is better for the existing (international) base of
installed users as would be recipients: using qp (at the transport
level), or using UTF-7 (at the content-type level)?
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Ashley Yakeley, Seattle WA