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Re: BOF: Format-Flowed and Non-Western Charsets

2002-03-18 15:31:24

We ended up meeting today.  There seems to be consensus on the following:

Ideally, the existing f=f can continue, with additional clarifications: if the character on each side of the SP CRLF sequence is 7-bit US ASCII, go ahead and delete the CRLF but leave the space (as is done now). If either character is not 7-bit US ASCII, then use language-specific folding rules to decide if the SP should be deleted or not. Since the point of f=f is to permit line wrapping, the client needs language-specific rules anyway. It just needs to now apply them during f=f decoding as well.

If there is violent objection to the above, the alternate solution is a new format parameter (content-type=text/plain; format=wrap) with the rule that a SP CRLF is inserted as desired, and deleted on receipt. The current f=f would be depricated.