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Re: Dash-escaping clarification

2003-03-07 17:38:24

On Fri, Mar 07, 2003 at 10:16:45PM +0000, Adam Back wrote:

Hmm I don't think it would be a good idea to allow dash-escaping of
literally anything because then you can't reverse the transformation
and '- ' is commonly used for bullet points where as the other cases
----- separated nested PGP signatures and other content types are not
common, and 'From ' is a prexisting common exception.

I don't see how there would be a problem in reversing the
transformation.

- bullet point
becomes
- - bullet point
and reverses back to
- bullet point

random text
becomes
- random text
and reverses back to
random text

David

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