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In lugnet.admin.suggestions, William R. Ward writes:
> You could always use Text::Wrap to reformat anything over 80 characters...
Unfortunately, Text::Wrap doesn't handle mail- and news-style quotations, and
would happily convert:
> >> >really especially long line of quoted text
to (bad):
> >> >really especially long line of
quoted text
instead of to (good):
> >> >really especially long line of
> >> >quoted text
> The biggest problem is the =3D in Brickshelf URL's. Even a special
> case to change =3D to = would be a huge help.
I agree.
> I assumed you would store the message without any changes, and convert
> it when displaying the message, perhaps with a cache for performance
> if needed.
I actually want to get rid of quoted-printable altogether -- as completely
and as early as possible in the cycle (e.g., as soon as the message is
received) and convert the message back to the way it was originall generated
by the sender. That way it doesn't get propagated outward through NNTP and
SMTP as quoted-printable, which would be undesirable because not all
newsreaders handle quoted-printable encoding natively. Some MTAs may even
choke on lines longer than, say, 512 bytes, if they aren't wrapped properly.
Quoted-printable is just a message-transfer encoding. Old MTAs (message
transfer agents) couldn't handle 8-bit data, so someone came up with quoted-
printable as a way to encode 8-bit data in 7-bit ASCII.
The standard thing to do when converting 'quoted-printable' to '8bit' is to
fix the Content-Transfer-Encoding header:
(OLD) Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
(NEW) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
and add an informational header saying:
X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by <hostname> id <id>
All an MTA has to do is essentially
$body =~ s{=\n}{}g;
$body =~ s{=([0-9A-Fa-f]{2})}{chr(hex($1))}eg;
and regenerate the 'Lines:' header if needed. The additional step of wrapping
excessively long lines intelligently isn't something an MTA typically does,
AFAIK.
--Todd
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| (...) [...] The additional step of wrapping (...) I was only speaking of the web interface. That's why I didn't cc admin.nntp on my original posting... Any newsreader that can't handle quoted-printable is obsolete and it's the user's problem. (...) (22 years ago, 21-May-03, to lugnet.admin.suggestions, lugnet.admin.nntp)
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| (...) Yes, I've seen that too. You could always use Text::Wrap to reformat anything over 80 characters... (...) The biggest problem is the =3D in Brickshelf URL's. Even a special case to change =3D to = would be a huge help. (...) I assumed you (...) (22 years ago, 20-May-03, to lugnet.admin.suggestions, lugnet.admin.nntp)
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