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Chris Newman <Chris(_dot_)Newman(_at_)innosoft(_dot_)com> writes:
I skimmed your proposal and it was both too complex and had ambiguities.
The obvious way to simplify it is to stop worrying about email-safety.
It's not worth pointing out the ambiguities until the algorithm is
sufficiently simple to be viable.
Fair enough! The ambiguities are fixable (that was just a first draft).
I think I would now want to take out the bit about removing '"' only
outside matching <...> and just remove them either regardless (except when
preceded by '\') or else not at all (but I worry about agents that create
unnecessary quoted-strings "just to be safe"). I don't see that the rest
is over-complicated, and I have in any case offered to write a model Perl
script for an appendix, which might indeed show up unexpected
difficulties.
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